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1946-1952 · Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt

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Seed wave 50 image for New Gourna.

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New Gourna

Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt · Exact work coordinates

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Field	New Gourna 1946-1952 · Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1946-1952	1952
Place	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	25°C · 12.9h daylight · 14 km/h wind	30°C · 12.7h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	Village and housing settlement	2 works in corpus
Architects	Hassan Fathy	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus Hassan Fathy	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	housing settlement village masterplan	tower housing
Materials	adobe mud brick earth	stone
Carbon signals	Adobe, Brick, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Adobe Brick Earth	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
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.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.