With my second checkpoint review quickly approaching, I needed something to keep my thoughts in order. Spending the past few weeks doing a myriad of readings, it felt like I was absorbing all of the research, but I’m taking them in as puzzle pieces that do not match. This reverse outline was made to help streamline my thoughts into one cohesive narrative, where I can explain my proposal from beginning to end without sounding like I’m all over the place.

Architectural Intervention - Checkpoint, Hub of Transportation and Cultural Exchange

The building proposal is centered around creating an inter-continental railroad system by connecting existing railroad infrastructure. There is a specific DMZ subway line that starts in Seoul and correlates with two different points on the DMZ border. This will be a centralized main facility that facilitates dissemination of smaller interventions throughout North and South Korea. These interventions are meant to be not a place for habitation, but rather a place for mobilization. existing railroad infrastructure.png

Furthermore, there will be additional smaller interventions along the trail that address three key components of facilitation of unification:

Academia - Educating North Koreans with current modern technology
Economic Trade Routes - Truck Stops, Factories, Production Facilities
Tourism - Pinpointing areas where the constraints between North and South Korean are at its most lenient

Politically “Neutral” Zone, or a even a New Country?

This checkpoint facility will be surrounded as a neutral zone between North and South Korea. This potentially “new” country between North and South Korea would serve as a “Middle Korea”, where it can take after the Nordic Model for democratic socialism as a possible liaison between two radically different governmental institutions.

source This zone between North and South Korea would be significant in that neither side’s political bias can have an effect on the meetings within it. This kind of space would facilitate a productive conversation between relevant parties that are involved.

Future Questions to Tackle

1) How can blockchain technology facilitate the institutional structure of the Nordic Model regarding politics and the economy? 2) Looking further, how can the highways between North and South Korea also be connected and be connected to this infrastructure? 3) Supplemented by further research, how would the different programmatic spaces be allocated based on the context of these different sites? 4) How would the everyday interactions and lifestyle be slowly transformed from these problems?

Thank you for taking the time to read through the reverse outline.

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