The issue of resettling the Nubians to their ancient lands around the shores of Lake Nasser is a matter of state interest. Therefore, the State has implemented the project of rehabilitation and resettlement of the Nubians in Wadi Karkar in Aswan city. This project took into account the social and economic dimensions of the Nubians but failed to create conditions for the living of people within these houses, as in the traditional Nubian dwelling. This traditional house was considered an example of the concept of environmental architecture. The Nubian architecture, with its vocabulary and meanings, has come to meet the needs of its users and is compatible with the surrounding environment.
The study aims to evaluate the thermal performance of both the traditional Nubian house in the village of West Aswan and the new housing in Wadi Karkar as a case study; the study, therefore, relied on field measurements to measure air temperature and relative humidity in the study models. The results indicate that each of the study models was far away from the thermal comfort zone, but the traditional model approaches from the thermal comfort zone more than the modern model. Which clearly indicates the omission of the modern house for the standards and climatic requirements in the interior spaces, unlike the traditional model, which contains many architectural vocabularies, which in turn led to a temperature drop of 7.9 K for meteorological data and proximity to the thermal comfort zone.