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1946-1952 · Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt

New Gourna image

Seed wave 50 image for New Gourna.

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New Gourna

Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 50 image for New Gourna.

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Field	New Gourna 1946-1952 · Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Atelier Tomás Taveira 1966 · Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1946-1952	1966
Place	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
Place context	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Representative site: Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
Climate	28°C · 12.9h daylight · 22 km/h wind	22°C · 13.5h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
Focus	Village and housing settlement	4 works in corpus
Architects	Hassan Fathy	Tomas Taveira
Linked context	Bureaus Hassan Fathy	Notable works Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa Estádio José Alvalade Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Alfragide Towers
Typologies	housing settlement village masterplan	sports venue housing tower landscape
Materials	adobe mud brick earth	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Adobe, Brick, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Adobe Brick Earth	sports venue, housing, tower, and landscape gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.