Students: Chenta Tsai Tseng
Tutors:
Project: Megalomania—Israel: Palestine Un-Boundary
School: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares

The disappearance of architectures occurs when it contextually, conceptually and physically disappears. Megalomania puts this into manifest. It is a speculation of what architecture may become when this violent tool that creates boundaries becomes one that destroys them instead.

Whilst architecture is primarily configured by authoritarian physical boundaries, we prevail in arealm dissected by invisible boundaries that co-exist in our urban fabric, some of them creatingan even more violent and conflicting divergence. As a result, Jerusalem and the invisible boundary between the Israelis and the Palestinians was chosen as a case study, a geo-political authoritarian line that divides ideologies and beliefs, in a never-ending fight for territory and authenticity.

Megalomania consists on an illegal underground tunnel that extends through Palestine and Israel, passing through the west bank border. This is an invisible, neutral, bi-religious space that offers shelter, exchange of sources and goods, as well as the research for its ancestral roots through excavation and archeological exploration.