FIELD NOTES / YEM / Western Asia
Yemen
Earthen tower-houses & dense streets.
START WITH A PLACE
Old City of Sana'a
Sana’a’s old city is known for its many-storeyed tower-houses and long history as a religious and political centre. Repeated vertical dwellings form a dense urban fabric within a mountain valley.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Compare a tower-house’s stacked openings with the narrow street below. How does vertical repetition create both an individual house and a collective skyline?
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)