ABSTRACT

Number one is the God-made environment which consists of the landscape with all that makes it and its configuration, valley or mountain, or plain, etc., as well as the fauna and flora and man itself, the climate and the atmosphere with its seven zones that envelop the crust of the globe, and even the stratosphere […]

1 THE NEW BARIZ URBAN PROJECT

The New Bariz project in Kharga oasis, in the heart of the western Egyptian desert, began within the sphere of a wide urbanisation programme of desert areas that the Egyptian government started during the Sixties. Fathy undertook this project elaboration in his full professional maturity when, finished his experience in Athens with C. Doxiades he had acquired his own idea of the city of future, and New Gourna, his first experience of a new city project, had been built ten years before. During this period Fathy’s scientific interest was completely involved in the systematisation of his design methodology based on climate.