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This
project was developed for a competition combining a prayer hall
and an Islamic Reformation school during Mr. Vural's sabbatical at Eisenman Architects. Mr. Eisenman and Mr. Rosson were design consultants.
The architectural idea derived from the possibility of re-inventing
the morphology of a contemporary mosque as an extension
of the historical mosque typology. Our mosque was designed to re-organize
the historical mosque elements; the courtyard, the minaret,
the arcade and the dome. Through gradual spatial and geometric transformations
these elements slipped into a surreal state where the domes
ooze into the minaret and the minaret ooze into the courtyard
and the arcade perforated through both these masses.
It depicts the fluid transition from the hard line to the
soft plane, from the mechanical to the digital and from the divine to the profane. |
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