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Location Gaza, Palestine
Architect/Planner Hassan Fathy
Date 1957
Century 20th
Decade 1950s
Building Type residential
Building Usage housing development


Notes
"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." (prototype, implementation not verified)

Source

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

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