FIELD NOTES / LBN / Western Asia
Lebanon
Regular streets & Umayyad planning.
START WITH A PLACE
Anjar
Anjar’s ruins preserve a notably regular urban layout from the early Umayyad period. The city can be read through the relationship between its main routes, building plots and monumental spaces.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Compare the repeated dimensions of ordinary blocks with the spaces around a palace. Where does the city’s regularity emphasize hierarchy?
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)