For 3000 years, the Sialk hills of Kashan city, in the central desert of Iran, has been synonymous with carpet weaving. What if brick, the most-commonly used building material in Iran, were the construction fibers of a new carpet blanketing this historical area? This project proposes a cultural-archaeological centre in the Sialk historical site that serves a two-fold purpose: 1) a carpet weaving centre providing women weavers with a platform to increase their profile within the community 2) archaeological research and resource station that revitalizes early Persian design.