Hurghada
According to the Köppen classification of climate, Hurghada is a hot desert climate, with average annual temperature above 18°C and very few annual precipitation.  From our climatic analysis, we found out that it can reach even values of 36°C.  For this reason, according to Climate Consultant, only the 25.3% of the hours will be comfortable: in fact, defining a set point temperature between 20°C and 26°C, the value of the heating degree days is 242,9 °C, and the value of the cooling degree days is 785,8°C. This means that the need of cooling is much more important that the one of heating.
For this reason, we should design our building thinking especially on the summer period, trying to reduce heat gains and increase heat losses, by:
Of course to reach an 100% of hours of comfort we should add some mechanical system to cool down.

Chapter 3

RESPONSE OF CLIMATE RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURES

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