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This
project was developed as the combination of a prayer hall
and an Islamic Reformation school with a 400 seat auditorium.
The architectural idea emerged from the possibility of inventing
the morphology of a contemporary mosque as an extension
of the historical mosque typology. Our mosque reinvented
these typological precedents, transforming and re-organizing
their architectural components; the courtyard, the minaret,
the arcade and the dome. Through gradual 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 perforate through the masses of the two.
It depicts the fluid transition from the hard line to the
soft plane, from the profane to the divine. |
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