FIELD NOTES / VNM / South-Eastern Asia
Vietnam
Imperial enclosures & river alignment.
START WITH A PLACE
Complex of Hué Monuments
Hué’s monument complex contains successive imperial and civic enclosures beside the Perfume River. Its spatial identity depends on the relationship between nested boundaries and the wider river setting.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Draw the city as a sequence of gates and enclosures. Compare the rigidity of those boundaries with the movement of the river.
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)