My name is Mukhethwa Nevhutanda. I am 25 years old and I was born in Johannesburg. I studied the Masters in Architecture (Professional) at the University of the Witwatersrand. I am currently employed at Bentel Associates International. This research and design project explores a revised model of a technical vocational education facility, focussing specifically on the upskilling and training of black females. Black females suffer from the most social and economic discrimination in South Africa; their lives are often characterised by violence, both in a physical sense and through discrimination in the economic sector. The act of making is deeply connected to the making of the self. Through architectural design, the study engages aspects of education, making and development of the self, through the lenses of feminism, the phenomenology of making, and personal reflection. The result is the design of a technical school for black females, located in Soweto in Johannesburg: an area that has a long history of turmoil experienced by black youth in South Africa. The design approach reveals a different way of thinking about technical education in response to both the economic, and existential and socio-spiritual crisis facing black females in South Africa.