Boldan

Boldan is an Arabic word that means countries or nations. Boldan, is an initiative visiting different places on Earth to discover their architectural heritage and their traditional way of building that they lived in for hundreds of years. In our visits to those different places we actually build with our hands under the guidance of the local inhabitants with their traditional building techniques and local raw materials. Those materials could be stones, Karshef, clay, mud bricks or any other local material. In Boldan we aim at documenting the tangible and intangible aspects of the architectural, vernacular heritage of those places not only by taking pictures or writing about those beautiful buildings but also by experiencing the whole local building process by ourselves. And by observing the community interaction together during the building process. Boldan is trying to create new, but old and simple ways of building and living in remote communities that are inspired from their own heritage. In addition to that, Boldan works as a platform that connects people and initiatives working in the field of architectural heritage and environmental buildings.