Improving relations between Afghanistan and the U.S. using embassy grounds requires promoting opportunities. In this unique case, the focus is on fostering Afghan women and their craft. This proposal combines a women’s art school and consulate center in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, a highly cultural city outside Kabul. It will sit securely in central downtown, attached to a women’s campus of recreational uses just across from the existing women’s gymnasium.

The structure will take upon natural Afghan typologies such as carved spaces resembling the void where the Buddhist statues once stood, rammed earth, and carefully designed landscapes. The recreational campus and a sculpture garden attend to the surrounding women-focused areas to help promote their essential voice in the community.