sustainabilityPlate 536 · Yazd, Iran

Windcatchers of Yazd

Towers that catch wind to cool a city, because the desert was the first HVAC engineer.

many centuries · Yazdi master builders · Middle East

The chamber score

Dastgah-e Homayun, radif

Mirza Abdollah · Persian classical

Tile, iwan, and a dastgah that refuses the minor/major split.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The badgirs of Yazd, UNESCO, among the world's great vernacular climate devices.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Windcatchers of Yazd through sustainability — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Windcatchers of Yazd was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.