Thula Fort Restoration
ARCHITECTS
Abdullah Al-Hadrami
LOCATION
Yemen
CATEGORY
Urban Design, Cultural Architecture, Restoration
AREA
8754 m²
YEAR
2011
PHOTOGRAPHS
Cemal Emden
Threatened by the disruption that might ensue from the construction of a road, the Thula community, with the help of to protect cultural assets, including rebuilding the walls of burial grounds and walls of agricultural terraces, restoring the Bab al Mayah gate, watch towers, paths and waterways, and repairing the cistern that remains in use to this day.
Thula is well-known for artefacts from the Sabaean period and its prototypical massive stone architecture.