FIELD NOTES / ECU / South America
Ecuador
Highland courtyards & layered interiors.
START WITH A PLACE
City of Quito
Quito’s historic centre contains churches, monasteries and civic spaces shaped by Indigenous and European artistic traditions. The ensemble invites movement between urban-scale enclosure and dense interior detail.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Compare a quiet courtyard with an ornamented interior. How does the route between them change the pace at which a surface is read?
An editorial observation prompt, grounded in the reference above.
WORKING COLOUR
A palette to begin with.
Five editorial tones for this surface family. Use them as a starting point for a study; they are not measured samples from the site.
Limestone paper#eee7d8oklch(0.929 0.021 85.945)
Warm sediment#c6ad86oklch(0.760 0.060 78.678)
Earth ochre#a36545oklch(0.568 0.092 47.550)
Weathered slate#657d79oklch(0.569 0.029 184.084)
Carbon ink#282b2boklch(0.286 0.004 196.917)