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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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Comparison

Field	New Gourna 1946-1952 · Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Pier Luigi Nervi 1932 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1946-1952	1932
Place	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Place context	Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt	Representative site: Turin, Turin, Italy
Climate	33°C · 12.9h daylight · 18 km/h wind	22°C · 13.8h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Torino Esposizioni
Focus	Village and housing settlement	5 works in corpus
Architects	Hassan Fathy	Pier Luigi Nervi
Linked context	Bureaus Hassan Fathy	Notable works Torino Esposizioni Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco) Norfolk Scope Paul VI Audience Hall
Typologies	housing settlement village masterplan	building church sacred space cathedral education campus building performance venue landscape
Materials	adobe mud brick earth	concrete
Carbon signals	Adobe, Brick, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Adobe Brick Earth	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
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.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.