After having been to Yemen, I now know that it's perfectly possible to build mud skyscrapers. So upon my return, I promptly sat down and designed a massive mud togetherment tower. Below is an image of the building in plan. LEGEND BROWN = Mud Walls RED = Bedrooms YELLOW = Sinks + Toilets BLUE = Showers GREEN = Common Rooms ORANGE = Walkway GRADIENT = Staircases BEIGE = Circus Trapeze

The compost toilet chutes face the south, so that they can receive the most intense summer sun and dehydrate, rendering them odorless. As an improvement on the Yemeni poo-removal model, instead of each floor's hamam being a few feet further in, they're a feet feet over to the side; the result is a waste chamber that's much easier to access from ground level. Other features of the building: there are 3 bathing chambers per floor: 2 individual shower, and one larger room for several people to bathe in at once if they so choose. The structure is planned at four stories to start with; the common rooms are, from the ground floor to the top floor: kitchen, dining room, social space, media theatre. I've named this building the BigTopticon after the Panopticon, a 19th-century prison that was circular in plan, but had a watchtower in the centre, where big brother monitored your every movement. But in the centre of the BigTopticon is a huge four-storey trapeze circus jungle gym, for us to swing and bounce around on!