The Transportation group suggested framing the studio focus to Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The area has the largest amount (in Dollars) of Freight Goods entering the US-Mexico and the most population crossing the Border seeking Asylum.
The studio decided to explore Laredo/Nuevo Laredo as a prototype for other areas along the Rio Grande and further west along the US-Mexico Border.
The Transportation Hub is connected to the 'UN on the Move", Cultural Centers and considers agricultural lands as part of the economic base, for example. One project is focused in Del-Rio, texas and one cultural Center is designed in San Antonio.
Nuevo-Laredo, Laredo, Del Rio and San Antonio form an important triad of sites for historic migration and current migration and asylum experience.
Ecological issues, Indigenous history and land rights, and endangered species that the current Wall exacerbates are reimagined regarding preservation, and reparation as Laredo and other areas in the vast diverse landscape of the borderlands are considered.