FIELD NOTES / SEN / Western Africa
Senegal
Historic enclosures & difficult heritage.
START WITH A PLACE
Island of Gorée
Gorée’s architecture preserves stark differences between spaces used by enslaved people and by slave traders. The island’s role as a place of memory must remain central to any reading of its built environment.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Study how enclosure, access and the size of a room encode unequal power. Avoid separating attractive facades from the histories behind them.
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)