14Editor's ChoiceA Reinforced CocoonA Reinforced Cocoon consists of a secure outer belt that hosts the working and learning spaces for Qandahar’s widows; and a central therapeutic residential cluster that empowers them by enhancing their sense of community. In its form, the design challenges the social, economic and patriarchal context of Afghanistan, yet flirts with its local architecture.
10Editor's ChoiceZanabad "City for women"The project proposes a neighborhood thought not just as a city of women but as a city for women. The project intends to create a place for both physical and phycological reconstruction of women and their children assisted by the community. From the individual unit to collective spaces, the project develops interrelated scales of collaboration.
72Step town: In this project, by combining two diagrams of ziggurat and caravanserai, we sought to create a diagram and form that, in addition to independence and high security, has a central open space for the interaction and activity of the residents of the complex.