
Designing for Encounter
University of Michigan Taubman College Graduate School of Architecture
Institutions Studio Fall 2022
Instructor: Gina Reichert
Project Focus
The location is placed securely 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. As a world heritage site and the safest city in the country, the decision to help promote the voices of women Afghan artists in a traditional yet modern structure is most fitting.
As of Fall 2022 the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban was occurring and women still had their freedom of education, careers, and choice of no more full body coverage. Below marks significant impacts between both embassies between attacks, change of leadership that impacted the embassy, and military reactions that lead each country’s embassy to where it is today.








