FIELD NOTES / NER / Western Africa
Niger
Mud-brick towers & irregular quarters.
START WITH A PLACE
Historic Centre of Agadez
Agadez’s historic quarters retain a street pattern connected to earlier encampments. Earthen houses, palaces and its tall mud-brick minaret connect everyday building with monumental construction.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Compare the minaret’s vertical profile with the low roofscape around it. Look for shared material logic across very different scales.
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)