Record 055 · Showcase home · 1946
83%46.55.X
New Gourna Village
“Architecture for the poor”
Nubian mud-brick vaulting; local soil only; natural cooling.
- passive-solar
- thermal-mass
- vernacular-materials
Image
- Credit
- Roland Unger, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Source
- commons.wikimedia.org
Dating
- “The Village was designed and built from 1946 to 1952” · unesco.org
