Mexican firm Estudio 3.14 has visualised the "gorgeous perversity" of US presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to build a wall.

Estudio 3.14's Prison-Wall project – developed in collaboration with the Mamertine Corporation of the United States – was undertaken to "allow the public to imagine the policy proposal in all of its gorgeous perversity".
Estudio 3.14's Prison-Wall project – developed in collaboration with the Mamertine Corporation of the United States – was undertaken to "allow the public to imagine the policy proposal in all of its gorgeous perversity". © Estudio 3.14 and Mamertine Corporation

The giant solid barrier would run 1,954 miles (3,145 kilometres) uninterrupted from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and be painted bright pink in the spirit of the 20th-century buildings by Pritzker Prize-winning Mexican architect Luis Barragán.

"Because the wall has to be beautiful, it has been inspired in by Luis Barragán's pink walls that are emblematic of Mexico," said the studio. "It also takes advantage of the tradition in architecture of megalomaniac wall building."

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"Moreover, the wall is not only a wall," said Estudio 3.14. "It is a prison where 11 million undocumented people will be processed, classified, indoctrinated, and/or deported."

The team suggests that the wall could employ up to six million personnel. It could also incorporate shopping centre straddling its width, and a viewpoint from which US citizens could climb up and look down onto the other side.

A series of graphics to accompany the proposal range from posters calling for workers, to US currency emblazoned with the wall's pink trail.