This project studied the landscape and culture of Afghanistan, in particular the Wardak Province, to enable a sensitive design of new settlements for groups of refugees returning from Pakistan. The goal of this proposal was to create settlements in which the driving force was this sense of community, as this is important at any time, but it is essential for refugees returning back home.

Each settlement has a variety of housing and a civic center consisting of a mosque, a health center, a primary school, and a marketplace. Large town or city centers and more smaller, intimate neighborhood public spaces provide a range of scales for community growth, creating connections between those who live there. This encouragement of communication and interaction can be seen at all levels of the project (wider settlement, town center, neighborhood layout, housing typologies, and specific buildings such as the primary school).