“Between walls”
Bamiyan Cultural Center Competition




Year: 2015
Location: Bamiyan (Afghanistan)
Client: Unesco
Area: 2500 m²
Program: Cultural
Result: Unknown
Project developed in collaboration with Gallinero architects. The project departs from the published bases by the UNESCO for the development of a cultural center in Bamiyan’s zone (Afghanistan). This way two basic concepts are decided that will remark the evolution of the project: The reorganization of the area that exists nowadays, seeking to reorientation of the sights towards the locations of the former budas (UNESCO heritage) and a game of walls of concrete Cyclopean that similarly adapt to the new level curvesthey are contain as requested in the program.
Therefore the presence in the existing landscape scarcely changes, and the set goes unnoticed except where it´s now open, seeking interesting sights.
At the same time a landscape labor is being done integrating a series of agricultural gardens in the environment, to energetically self-supply the set and to use the activity of major economic power of the zone.