LOCAL APPLICATION OF THE TECHNIQUE TRADITIONAL URBAN LAYOUT 18

LOCAL APPLICATION OF THE TECHNIQUE

Technique: TRADITIONAL URBAN LAYOUT Local name: Shibam and Wadi Hadramaut Site: Shibam and Wadi Hadramaut Location Click the globe to see the techinique on Google Map Continent: Asia Country: Yemen Site: Shibam and Wadi Hadramaut Coordinates: Lat: 15.92 Long: 48.63 Description of the local variant of the technique Shibam is built in the middle of the bed of the wadi Hadramaut. It has a precise quadrangular geometric shape, perfectly delimited by a massive inhabited boundary wall. Inside the plot is clear and smooth, with a square proportionate and orderly placement of buildings and public spaces. The individual buildings, built as independent units, are about 30 m high and each host a single family. The concealment of religious architecture, such as mosques, into the urban fabric is achieved by ensuring the same height for all buildings, the white paint of the top floor, the creation a compact form, as if the town had wanted to express a sense of equality and community with the architecture. The body of knowledge that integrates every aspect of the practices of settlement, housing, and manufacturing has made it fertile area of the wadi. Each family can live in houses with elaborate architecture, because of the low cost of materials and the social cooperation allows everyone to create beautiful buildings. The houses and the inner city plan are cleverly arranged to be functional for the collection of human excrement, which are indispensable to the fertilization of the gardens. Each house has provided sanitation facilities outside of discharges that overlook more reserved streets, the blind alleys or paths around. Survival prospects 80% Preserved and functional  Images Detail of a blind alley with the division of solid and liquid waste from various buildings.  Deepening TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE DATA Technique TRADITIONAL URBAN LAYOUT Icon Cathegory E - Settlements, architecture and movable handworks Identification code E9 Other Local applications of the technique RELATED TECHNIQUES F6f ARCHITECTURE FOR PASSIVE COOLING F5 ARCHITECTURE FOR PROTECTING FROM EXTREME CLIMATES E9e CORRESPONDANCE OF URBAN STRUCTURES TO SOCIOCULTURAL BACKGROUND E7c EXTRAORDINARY FEATURES OF DWELLING ARCHITECTURE G9 FORMS OF SOCIAL SOLIDARITY E7 IMPORTANT TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE B9g INTEGRATED CYCLE OF ORGANIC WASTE G8 KNOWLEDGE PASSED ON DOWN THE GENERATIONS F6e LOCAL TECHNIQUE ISOLATION E9c MAZE-LIKE LAYOUT AND BLIND ALLEYS F6c SYSTEMS OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE MANAGEMENT E8m TOWER HOUSE E6 TYPOLOGIES OF OASIS SETTLEMENTS F7 URBAN LAYOUT FOR RESOURCES MANAGEMENT E8d USAGE DESTINATION AND PECULIAR DISTRIBUTIVE FEATURES Author: IPOGEA, www.ipogea.org Other authors: Reference: