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By HASSAN FATHY
Egyptian Architect(1900 – 1989)
Designed 160 separate projects from modest country retreats to
fully planned communities, markets, schools, theatres, places for worship
and for recreation.
Architectural perspectives
• Ancient design methods and materials• Utilizing a knowledge of rural Egyptian
economic situation• Space design suitable to surrounding environ-
ment• Low cost construction without using R.C.C and
steel• Training locals to build ones own house
Design elements
• Mud brick (Adobe) walls• Thick walls• Wind-catcher and Qanat• Decorative screens• Building orientation and placement of
windows • Domes and Vaulted roofs• Courtyard
Gourna mosque
The elevation
Plan And Sectional elevation
Guma Mosque, Gourna
Screens in Window
Vaulted roof at Gourna Theatre
Ventilation system -Kharga Market -
Overall understanding• Mud brick – Low heat radiation, low cost, availability• Thick wall – high insulation• Small windows not facing the sun.• Windcatcher – Air circulation, a pressure gradient used
to get away with the hot air.• Qanat – Used with windcatcher to cool the interior air
by deep cut canal in the floor filled with water.• Screens – Restrict glare of light • No use of R.C.C and Steel for high heat radiation• Courtyard with partial greenery to screen dust and
sand in the prevailing wind.
Design Phillosophy
• Low cost construction• Usage of local materials and vernacular architecture• Training of local people in construction to reduce labor
cost• Against western techniques and ‘Matcbox houses’• Design development with energy conservation
technique, Study of temperature and wind patterns.• Passive cooling
Developed by
1. Misba.2. Saba.3. Kalyani.4. Suman.
Thank You !!!
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