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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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Hero image

Seed wave 50 image for New Gourna.

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Comparison

Field	New Gourna 1946-1952 · Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Jo Coenen Architects & Urbanists 1987 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1946-1952	1987
Place	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Representative site: Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Climate	26°C · 12.9h daylight · 14 km/h wind	13°C · 14.3h daylight · 22 km/h wind · via DeLaMar
Focus	Village and housing settlement	3 works in corpus
Architects	Hassan Fathy	Jo Coenen
Linked context	Bureaus Hassan Fathy	Notable works DeLaMar Netherlands Architecture Institute Vesteda Toren
Typologies	housing settlement village masterplan	performance venue museum library tower
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	performance venue, museum, library, and tower 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	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.