The Oldest Skyscraper City | Shibam, Yemen
The Oldest Skyscraper City | Shibam, Yemen
The desert of Yemen, Wadi Hadramout is an ancient walled city Shibam, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1982. It is called the Manhattan of the Desert because of its skyscrapers. Land surrounded by a mud wall, the city of the XVI century is one of the oldest examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. The ancient city of Shibam, built 400 years ago, was a thriving commercial center. Shibam several times, became the capital of the kingdom of Hadramaut. City famous for its incomparable with anything comparable architecture - all the houses are built in Shibam of adobe bricks. About 500 homes are called high-rises, as they have 5-11 floors, each floor was a single family dwelling. This type of structure were designed to protect residents from Bedouin raids. While Shibam has existed for about 2,500 years, most urban homes were built in the XVI century. Many of them repeatedly rebuilt in later centuries. In Shibam are the highest buildings in the world of clay, some of which rise to 30 meters or more.
These high-rise buildings is a product of the traditional family system. According to local tradition, the family, as the po-hundred, as a rule, does not divide built premises, and expands the up your living space thanks to the original roof. So, from generation to generation, gradually formed a high dwelling. Each of the 500 such houses in Shibam has from 5 to 8 floors, which are home to 7,000 people, that is, on average, every building is designed for more than 100 people. Ground floor is given to animals; the second floor is keep-lischem; third - accommodations. Usually on the third floor room host, fourth and fifth floors are rooms for women and children, on the sixth floor is a common room. In each room is not much space, first and second floors, mostly devoid of windows.
Building materials — In the city of Shibam all objects, including fences, houses, mosques and even schools are built of adobe bricks (they are made of clay, straw and water, dried in the sun for three days and ready for use in construction). Such dwellings may persist for centuries and are a marvel of architecture. This is explained by negligible rainfall in this region, at best, can be a bit pomorosit. Every year the residents of Shibam and paint the exterior walls are whitewashed, and this is sufficient to prevent water erosion. Shibam is built from environmentally friendly materials and blending in perfectly with the environment.
Shibam is 160 km long and 2 km wide, and is a dry valley. Here rainfall, torrential rains and floods are rare. However, in 1298 and in 1532 was twice destroyed Shibam floods. Today's buildings are constructed of Shibam, mainly 400 years ago.
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The oldest city of skyscrapers built in the Shibam Desert
New York, Dubai, Shanghai, Moscow... What do all these cities have in common? Of course - the world-famous skyscrapers! Skyscrapers that make you dizzy is a symbol of any modern city! However, few people know that the first high-rise buildings did not appear in America and not in Europe, and in the middle of the desert - in Asia! Shibam in the Republic of Yemen is now commonly referred to as the oldest city of skyscrapers in the world or Desert Manhattan!
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Shibam, the world's first skyscraper city This city is often called the First Skyscraper City in the World and the Manhattan of the Desert. Founded some 1800 years ago the city was once the capital of the Hadramawt Kingdom in what is now eastern Yemen. However, most of the current city dates from the 1500s CE, its buildings having been restored and rebuilt numerous times in the proceeding centuries. Today approximately 7000 residents call the city home in an area of only 9 hectares or 1.2 km2. It is believed that the density of city and the towers are a defensive measure which, along with the Walls of Shibam, protected the city from Bedouin raids. All of the houses of Shibam are built of mud brick typical of the region. Some 500 towers exist within the walls which rise from 5 to 11 stories in height. These are some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, some 30m (100 feet) in height. To protect the buildings from rain and erosion fresh layers of mud must constantly be reapplied providing employment to the worlds oldest group of high-rise scaffold workers.
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Schibam befindet sich im mittleren Wadi Hadramaut und hat über 13.000 Einwohner. Die Verwaltungseinheit Schibam weist eine Bevölkerung von 59.285 auf.Die alte Stadt umfasst eine Fläche von 250 Meter × 350 Meter und ist für ihre mehrstöckigen Wohnhäuser aus Lehmziegeln berühmt. Viele der Gebäude sind bis zu 25 Meter hoch und haben ein Alter von bis zu 500 Jahren. Die Stabilität der Häuser wird unter anderem durch eine konsequente Verringerung der Mauerstärken nach oben gesichert, sowie durch ein rigides Modulsystem von Wand- und Fensterachsen und einem System von Holzsäulen und Holzdecken, mit denen die Lehmwände miteinander verzahnt sind. Die Lehmoberflächen müssen regelmäßig erneuert werden. Die Dächer und sensible Bauteile sind durch Kalkputz geschützt, der nur etwa alle 25 Jahre erneuert werden muss.
Dieses Stadtensemble wurde 1982 von der UNESCO in das Weltkulturerbe aufgenommen. Am 2. Juli 2015 wurde es aufgrund der potenziellen Gefährdung durch den bewaffneten Konflikt auf die Rote Liste des gefährdeten Welterbes gesetzt.
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シバームの街。
世界遺産じゃない方です。
Shibam
Shibam lies in Hadermut - the Green valley in east Yemen - a medieval sky scrapers city that reminds people of Manhattan.
It is a small remarkable and not very beautiful - nine the less - interesting enough to go there.
שיבם נמצאת בחצרמוות - עמק ניפלא בדרום תימן. עיר קטנה שיש בה גורדי שחקים גדולים בני מאות שנים. שם נולדה מנהטן ורוב ערי המאה ה-20. האם היא יפה? לא בטוח. מעניינת? בודאי
Shibam
Hope Beverstein crosses the desert with a Bedouin escort in Yemen. Join her as she explores a bombed out village, visits Yemen's most celebrated Arabic Islamic city, and negotiates in the market place.
Shibam
Some shots of the ancient walled city of Shibam in Hadramawt, Yemen. The city is protected by UNESCO.
Shibam was founded in the 3rd century A.D. and played a keyrole in Yemeni history - it was a capital of formerly independent state of Hadramawt. It's famous for mudbrick skyscrapers and sometimes is called Manhattan of the desert.
Pár záběrů starodávného města Shibam ve wadi Hadramawt na východě Jemenu. Shibam je zapsán na seznamu světového kulturního dědictví UNESCO.
Město bylo založeno ve 3. století na karavanní stezce s myrhou, kadidlem a kořením, které byly zdrojem bohatství Arabie Felix. Po zániku Sabaenského království se oblast Hadramawt osamostatnila a Shibam byl sídelním městem jejích králů. Shibam je proslulý svými mrakodrapy z hliněných cihel a je pro ně nazýván Manhattanem pouště.
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Marib was the capital of the Sabaean kingdom. Tarim is a historic town in the Hadhramaut Valley of Yemen. The minaret of the Al Muhdhar Mosque is measured 53 metres high, and recognised to be one of the tallest earth structures in the world. Shibam owes its fame to its distinct architecture, which now is on UNESCOs programme to safeguard the human cultural heritage. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud bricks, but still there are about 500 tower houses, rising 5 to 9 stories high. While Shibam has existed for around 2,000 years, most of the city's houses come mainly from the 16th century (wikipedia).