2.3.4. A Modern Apartment Building

The design for a modern apartment building by Hassan Fathy shows the use of a staircase as a *malqaf* with a cooling mechanism based on evaporation on top of the stairwell. From the plan and section in Figure 25, the windcatcher is shown to be facing south, which is different from the typical orientation of the windcatcher in Egypt.

**Figure 25.** (**a**,**b**) Plan and section 'A-A' for a modern apartment building by Hassan Fathy. Reprinted with permission from [37]. 2023. Courtesy of the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, The American University in Cairo.
