Proposed settlement

A modern Nubian village for 1,000 people.

Two hundred courtyard houses, between four pivots. The houses stand on the dry land the arms never reach, so no irrigated feddan is taken.

Proposed view. A design image for this brief, not a photograph of a place already built.

Settled population

1,000

Farm families

200

five to a house

Area

11.5 fed

220 × 220 m

Clear of the wheel

38 m

On the agriculture areas

The same lattice, clipped to the ten polygons in the file. Green is the pivot field. Each dot is a village. The Nile is the solid blue line, from Lake Nasser to the Rosetta and Damietta mouths. The piped Tushka river is the dashed line: two branches leave the intake on Lake Nasser, one west across the desert and one north toward the Fayum.

Illustrative organization inside the supplied outlines. Not a granted parcel. Algae farms in the same file are not tiled.

The last column is programme year 2036, the year on the control. The control opens at 2036 and runs from 2027 to 2076. The figure is that year’s pivots in production, shared across the ten areas in proportion to each area’s full pivot count. The Pivots column is the full layout, not that year.

Programme year

2036

20272076

Area	Pivots	Villages	Pivots in 2036
Farafra desert	196,503	3,056	42,412
Tushka	207,668	3,219	44,822
West of the Fayum	42,304	652	9,131
Siwa	98,695	1,524	21,302
South-eastern desert	71,193	1,102	15,366
Eastern desert	34,468	533	7,439
Red Sea hills	6,248	97	1,349
North Sinai	27,506	422	5,937
Central Sinai	9,644	145	2,082
South Sinai	2,487	32	537

How it sits

Each pivot is a circle of 400 metres, about 120 feddans. The centres are 840 metres apart, which leaves a 40-metre farm track between two circles. The village is a square of 220 metres on the crossing.

Layout map. North at the top. An illustrative module, not a granted site.

The fit

The nearest wheel passes 38 metres from the corner of the village. Across the agriculture areas this crossing repeats every eight pivots, in both directions.

The house

Each house is a 10 by 14 metre plot: two vaulted rooms, a kitchen, and a court that takes the north air. Walls are shared. The lane is shaded. The mosque, the school, the clinic and the co-operative hall face one square.

Use	m²	feddan
200 courtyard houses	28,000	6.7
Shaded lanes	8,400	2.0
Square, mosque, school, clinic, co-op, market	6,000	1.4
Date court and windbreak	6,000	1.4
Village	48,400	11.5