Sahel earthen architecture Animated HTML website template

The sample page

Paume & Toron. Earthen architecture studio, Ségou.

The idea

The toron stakes become the hands of a sundial: their shadows on the hand-smoothed wall tell Ségou’s real time of day.

What to try

Move the sun with the slider or by dragging across the house to watch raking light reveal the handprints and the toron shadows swing from sunrise to late afternoon.

Made for

Sustainable architecture, hotels, ceramics and coffee

Palette

• #F2E2C9
• #B9814F
• #8C5A35
• #5B3A22
• #4A7FA7
• #D9B38C

Typefaces

Unbounded + Manrope

Cultural notes

• An invented house from a single Malian tradition, never a copy of the Great Mosque of Djenné or any real building.
• Earth shown as a sophisticated, living craft, with no exoticizing gaze.
• The community replastering after the rains is mentioned with respect in the toron definition.

The HTML

What you download

• A single index.html file with nothing to install: open it, swap in your brand and copy, and upload it to your hosting.
• In English and Spanish, tested on desktop and mobile.
• Instructions for changing copy, colors, language and prices, plus its license.