Chapter 04 / Thermal Economy
Slide 12 / Mud brick performance ledger
Qurna Works Field Note

The wall underfoot beat imported concrete.

Interior peak temperature by construction type

Same sun, different intelligence in the roof.

Bar chart showing interior peak temperatures Concrete rooms peak highest at forty one point six degrees Celsius, fired brick at thirty seven point four, and mud brick vaulted rooms at thirty point four. 45 C 40 C 35 C 30 C 25 C 41.6 C Government concrete 37.4 C Fired brick flat roof 30.4 C Mud brick Nubian vault -11.2 C vs. concrete shell