Arab Refugee Housing, Palestine, Asia
 
Year1957latitude: ° 0'
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Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)Hassan Fathy
Design organization
Inhabitants
Target population
Town website
Town related linkshttp://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=3888
Literature

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 
"This design for a prototype for temporary housing for Palestinian refugees actually proposes three types of units, all organized on a five-metre-square module, with four units meant to be grouped together on the foundation base. The use of a module here adds a great deal of flexibility to a bearing wall system, which is often dismissed as being too static for such construction."

Steele, James. 1997. An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy. London, United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson.

Although not realized it is an interesting project seen in the light of Fathy's earlier work. Here he not only designs housing that corresponds to specific cultural needs, he also designs a temporary camp with the same concerns.

source: http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=3888

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