Level Two

Lobby

Multi purpose room

Seating area

Classrooms

Library Office

Restrooms

Stage Storages

Fire exit

Multipurpose Room

Lecture Hall and a Movie facility that has eighty seats in level two, which is approximately 2300 sq ft. that it will have two lectures per week on the weekend. It will be available for everyone and not just Muslims. It will host diverse lectures with topics on Muslims beliefs, values, Islamic history, and prophets such as Mohammad, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Noah. It will also discuss the similarities between sky religions. It will be interesting for people to know that Muslims also believe in Jesus and Mary, and this will create many questions in their head. They may also want to hear the stories that Muslims have in the Quran regarding that. The center also will host some famous speakers, which will make it a popular place. The center will promote interfaith dialogue, answering all questions asked by its visitors, making it the perfect place for curious people. It will also provide a good forum in which debates can take place between the sky religions. People can come from everywhere to listen to both sides and ask questions. Furthermore, Muslims can use the space to celebrate during holidays. The hall will show films in order to teach people about Islam history, religion, and culture.

The Class rooms

Three classes located in level two, which is 360 sq ft for each class. It will be for teaching Arabic language, Holy Quran, and Islamic history class. The special feature of these classes will be that they are open for everyone, and not just Muslims. Three expert teachers will run these classes, and the classes are available at nominal prices. Each class will hold a maximum of ten students. Moreover, you can register for two days during the week days, or you can register for one or two days on the weekend, but these classes will be available for adults only.

Library

Book shelves and seating area around 5000 sq ft, that it enough to serve forty people. It will contain a variety of Islamic history books, references, and Quran translation for many languages. It will also have CD’s, DVD’s, journals and newspapers available to check out. Furthermore, a small workstation will be available for research. There will be two employees serving the library’s visitors.

Level Three

Lobby

Mosque, men’s section

Mosque, women’s section

Waiting area for kids

Restrooms Storage

Fire exit

A mosque

Muslims must pray five times a day at specific times; they pray in the morning, afternoon, evening and at night. As a result of that, in the Islamic counties there are places of prayer everywhere such as schools, malls, and companies. So, this is the reason behind designing a mosque for prayer in the Islamic culture center to serve the staff and the Muslims visitors. It will be interesting to the visitors to view the Muslims way of prayer. The mosque will divided in to two section 4600 sq ft for men and 2000 sq ft for women, that it will be enough for six handers people.

The Museum Lobby

Is located in the Basement level, the design began from the patterns on the floor, it started as a simple lines connected to each other, but after that it became busser. Theses motif inspired by the traditional Islamic art patterns. The lines spared to create a connection between itself and everything in the space. The geometric shapes on the walls are repetition to the trappings on the floor. Together they create a nice symmetry. The geometric cubes have been designed by using modern technique to give the place this contemporary looking. Moreover, the shape of the seating area have been designed by using some lines from the floor patterns, this create sense of unity in this area. The visitor will realize that there is one focal point in each space. The Arabic calligraphy patterns on the seats is the focal point in the basement lobby, which is art installation on the wood. They can hire one of the local artist to do it, and this will be one of the art works that it show in the museum. Also, the reason behind making this kind of gray mode in this area is to take the Islamic art from the traditional looking which using a lot of shiny colors.

The Museum Lobby

This scene shows the entry to the museum in the basement area. Furthermore, the materials that has been chosen to be used in this area are varieties of concretes, such as dark formed concrete, and light rough concrete for the floor.