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Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt
Carl W. Condit,Hassan Fathy +1 more
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This article is published in Technology and Culture.The article was published on 1974-04-01. It has received 85 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Architecture.read more
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The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction
TL;DR: Brooks Hedstrom as discussed by the authors traces how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism, and provides an ecohistory of Egypt's tripartite landscape to offer a reorientation of the perception of the physical landscape.
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On the development of an urban passive thermal comfort system in Cairo, Egypt
Mohamad Fahmy,Stephen Sharples +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how urban form can be designed to act as a passive thermal comfort system in Cairo, which utilizes two main elements, urban fabric form, with its green structure, and thermal comfort adaptation by introducing urban green scene stimulation with the time of exposure to the urban environment.
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Effect of damper and heat source on wind catcher natural ventilation performance
TL;DR: In this paper, a full-scale wind catcher was connected to a test room and positioned centrally in an open boundary wind tunnel to investigate the effect of air flow control mechanism and heat source inside rooms on wind catcher performance.
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Durability of compressed and cement-stabilised building blocks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the interplay between three main factors: constituent materials used (cement, soil, water); quality of block processing methods employed; and the effects of natural exposure conditions (physical, chemical, biological).
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A knowledge map for describing variegated and conflict domains of sustainable development
TL;DR: In this paper, a knowledge map of the fragmented and multidisciplinary literature of sustainable development is drawn, and seven metaphors that together construct this map are identified through the process of metaphor making.