Relying on his high technical expertise, Naoum Shebib audaciously confronted – and met – structural and architectural challenges.

Back

The Cairo Tower consists of a central reinforced concrete core, four peripheral columns and circular platforms distributed along the tower's entire height.

These platforms support the tower's external concrete components, which are shaped like irregular diamonds.

Back

The Sainte-Therese’s church in Port-Said consists of a single vault of reinforced concrete which sits on the ground.

A wooden casing made with thousands of planks was used to build the concrete shell.

Back

For soils that could not withstand concentrated loads, Naoum Shebib designed a special type of foundation.

These special foundations allowed the load to be distributed over a large area by increasing the support points.

These raft-type foundations were constructed of a thin vault of reinforced concrete in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid with a height of about 2 meters (6 feet).

Back

Naoum Shebib transcribed in his notes, sketches and writing his particular vision of architecture, as well as his studies on thin vaults and transfer of loads.

Back

Structural calculation notes for thin vaults.

Back