Tradition to Modern?
...ch people started to use new materials for building. Fathy’s idea was to build ideal house for the ideal people. For the people with low income in Egypt, concrete masonry was too much for them. The material itself was too expensive. Fathy came up with idea of mud bricks. The concrete is a foreign material so it even cost more. But for the mud bricks, you could find and make mud bricks any where in Egypt. Also Egyptians used the mud bricks centuries ago and it is one of the most distinguishable materials to the Ancient Egyptian Architecture. So rather than looking and hoping toward the impossible plan(concrete), mud brick fit in the traditional category as well as the beauty of the Egypt. Even though the using the mud brick as a house building material is an old trick, there are advantages. First of all mud is lighter than the concrete, it was easier to make the house. Also, it kept the houses cool during the summer and warm in the winter. However, concrete houses become cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. Also, labor could be the problem. For mud bricks, and was just sat and dry then stack, but if it concrete, it actually requires big tools and not even that it requires education and training to use the concrete to make houses. If you look at the regular towns, most of the houses look alike, because the architects does not have enough time and budget to make each house suitable for each clients. Since the making a mud brick house was not a hassle like making a concrete house, it enabled the house to be made to the actual occupants who will be living in the house. A town with all different design will make every person unique from each other. It was either to have more people with out home or to make cheap houses for the people who needed home. Why would people disagree? Why would some people be resistant to using mud bricks? By only looking at the material side of the mud brick, it is an old material so it does have drawbacks. If we make the house with using a concrete, it just needs a form to hold it in its place. And once set, it stays the same. But the mud does not; it continues to shrink until it has become dry. Time after time, according to the permeability of soil and the climate conditions, it will cause the mud bricks to shrink, crack or even break. This could be a big problem, if we are building a mud brick house in some where else. But the weather condition in Egypt, will cause no tornados or hard rain to knock down the mud bricks That was the one of the reason why there were resistant in the utilization of the mud brick. They were scared that the brick was not as strong as the cinder block. But mud shrink causing the interior forces to compress and it makes it harder. And other reason for the disagreeing mud brick came from the villagers. Few villagers did not like the mud brick style. They thought it was old and traditional. They wanted something modernized materials something like concrete or steel. I do not think that I should say this as one of the conclusion, but I do know that mud brick will help l...