Toxic Wall

The Toxicwall, designed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute architecture student Henry Louis Miller, is a response to the bullying, isolationist tone (as he sees it) creeping into the national debate on immigration. It’s a simple idea. Collect earth from polluted brownsites. Use it to make toxic bricks. Form these bricks into a wall along the nation’s southern border. Prevent illegal immigrants from crossing by forcing them to risk contamination.

To maintain the toxicity of the brick, it seems that the bricks are likely mud-brick as vitrification of fired brick might reduce the effect. The toxic mud brick wall seems equally as harmful as architect Antoine Predock’s rammed earth border wall.

0 Replies to “Toxic Wall”

  1. That’s sounds horrible! So simple and at the same time so dangerous! Earth is a sustainable material, how can be used for this disgusting scope? That’s the opposite meaning of care about the environment!Why don’t we resolve the problem of contaminated places with a simple idea as well instead of giving an opportunity to develop this areas for a military scope?
    I would like to receive an answer.

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