Egypt & Nubia
Rainless heat along a single ribbon of water.
The oldest drawings of wind scoops are Egyptian; Cairo's mashrabiyas cooled water and rooms in one gesture; and in Nubia, builders raised whole vaulted roofs from mud brick without any timber at all, a trick Hassan Fathy carried into the twentieth century.
Born here · 4 techniques
In humid climates mass and evaporation don't help, so the strategy flips to maximising air movement, raised ventilated roofs, gable vents, cleresto…
A projecting turned-wood lattice over a window breaks and accelerates airflow (small openings speed the breeze), shades the interior, controls glar…
A covered sitting area at ground level, screened by a lattice between a sunlit courtyard and a cooler shaded garden.
Mud bricks are leaned against an end wall along a catenary curve and built up into a self-supporting vaulted roof, with no timber and no shuttering.