Flowerman Festival · Rijal Almaa Heritage Village · Aseer, Saudi Arabia
When a 900-year-old village becomes the show.
Sixty stone, clay and wood houses stacked into the Aseer mountains — UNESCO-tentative, home of the Flowermen, host of the centuries-old Al-Qatt geometric tradition. Plan A was invited by the Saudi Ministry of Culture to take the whole village façade and project onto it: a multi-projector edge-blend across the heritage façades, choreographed live to sword dance, music and storytelling on the central stage.
The Venue
Rijal Almaa sits fifty kilometres west of Abha, deep in the Aseer mountains — about nine hundred years old, sixty multi-story buildings of stone, clay and wood stepping up the hillside. Often called Saudi Arabia's gingerbread village; on UNESCO's tentative World Heritage list. Home of the Flowermen, who still wear floral crowns and the Al-Qatt geometric art tradition that decorates their interiors.
The full village façade — sixty stone houses, multiple stories, stepping up the hillside — was photogrammetry-scanned and rebuilt as a single edge-blended canvas. Across the night the map moves through five chapters — Al-Qatt, pattern, mandala, aurora and night — locked pixel-true to every window, every stone course, every arched doorway.
Multi-projector edge-blend across the full village façade, ground-stacked.
Resolume Arena — per-house masks, manually called against live performance.
Bespoke 3D content rooted in Aseer's Al-Qatt geometric tradition.
DMX + manual show-call, locked to the central stage music and storytelling.
Al-Qatt Al-Asiri is the centuries-old geometric wall-painting tradition of the Aseer region — bold, primary-coloured, usually applied by women, by hand, on interior walls. We rebuilt the motifs in 3D and projected them back onto the exterior of the village itself. The pattern breathes across the stone — vivid blocks of red, green, blue and yellow, locked pixel-true to the architecture beneath.
Bespoke 3D pattern library built from Al-Qatt research and local archives.
Pixel-true masks on each stone house — no overspill onto trees or sky.
Ground-level wash to lift the dancers without spilling into the projection.
Zero rigging on protected stone. Free-standing truss only.
Plan A's job is to disappear into the moment. The dancers, the elders, the children in floral crowns — they are the show. The mapping holds the architecture; the light holds the people. The technology serves the heritage, not the other way around.
From the field
"We didn't decorate Rijal Almaa. We held a light up to it. The pattern was already there — in the stone, in the cloth, in the dance. We just made it move."— Plan A · Show notes · Aseer
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