The old Walled city of Shibam.
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, If you travel to tour Yemen, one of the critical and fascinating national heritage site to
visit is the old Walled City of Shibam. Architecture wise, the old city of Shibam is critical in the
sense that it is the first city ever city to be built on a vertical master plan in the history of man.
This is a fifteen-century city with mud-walled tall buildings and skyscrapers. The brick-walled
buildings are up to eight storeys high, the have an amazing tipping, and tapering design from the
ground up. The architectural designs behind the city’s unique structures couple with the selection
of the site for cities onset makes the Walled city of Shibam unique and a source of valuable
insight into the origin of the vertical architectural designs and structures and explains why it is
important to preserve the heritage forfuture generations (The World's Heritage).
Through history, the city of Shibam is regarded as the first with a vertical master plan to
be construction in Yemen and the world at large. It was build way back in 15 th and it is amazing
to find the mud walls of the buildings still standing to date. Since 1992, shibam national heritage
site and under the protection of UNESCO.
Visual outlook of Shibam
Taking a closer look at the old city from higher point, you can see densely packed buildings that
range from four to eight storeys in height. The old city lies at the heart of the Yemen’s Wadi
Hadramaut region. This is where you can have a chance to see a cluster of old mud-walled
skyscrapers that emerge above the floor of the desert, beaconing human’s quest and ability to
adapt to their natural terrain and environment.
Swadling, Mark. Masterworks of Man & Nature: Preserving Our World Heritage. Patonga
<N.S.W.: Harper Mac-Rae, 1992. Print.
Student name
Date
, If you travel to tour Yemen, one of the critical and fascinating national heritage site to
visit is the old Walled City of Shibam. Architecture wise, the old city of Shibam is critical in the
sense that it is the first city ever city to be built on a vertical master plan in the history of man.
This is a fifteen-century city with mud-walled tall buildings and skyscrapers. The brick-walled
buildings are up to eight storeys high, the have an amazing tipping, and tapering design from the
ground up. The architectural designs behind the city’s unique structures couple with the selection
of the site for cities onset makes the Walled city of Shibam unique and a source of valuable
insight into the origin of the vertical architectural designs and structures and explains why it is
important to preserve the heritage forfuture generations (The World's Heritage).
Through history, the city of Shibam is regarded as the first with a vertical master plan to
be construction in Yemen and the world at large. It was build way back in 15 th and it is amazing
to find the mud walls of the buildings still standing to date. Since 1992, shibam national heritage
site and under the protection of UNESCO.
Visual outlook of Shibam
Taking a closer look at the old city from higher point, you can see densely packed buildings that
range from four to eight storeys in height. The old city lies at the heart of the Yemen’s Wadi
Hadramaut region. This is where you can have a chance to see a cluster of old mud-walled
skyscrapers that emerge above the floor of the desert, beaconing human’s quest and ability to
adapt to their natural terrain and environment.
Swadling, Mark. Masterworks of Man & Nature: Preserving Our World Heritage. Patonga
<N.S.W.: Harper Mac-Rae, 1992. Print.
