GROUP:ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS SALMA KATTASS AND FATIM ZOHRA ETTALALI NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE MOROCCO
SITE
ICONIC CREEK MOSQUE DUBAI CREEK HARBOUR MASS PLAN
parking
Esplanade
place
CONCEPT parking vers la mecque
voie projettée
CONCEPT Our proposal for the iconic mosque at Dubai Creek Harbour is a project that emerges from its context creating a new waterfront destination in continuity with the Creek Tower project and Linear park axis. It is a challenge to sketch a modern minimalist mosque that transgresses the cognitive image of what is a mosque while keeping the identity of the mosque. The design was initially inspired by the first open air mosque that ever existed in the history of Islam; Starting from the very first mosque created by the badou in the desert, containing a prayer hall directed towards Mecca and ablutions apart delimited by stones. Therefore, the 3 basic components of the mosque are the isolated ablution rooms of the mosque, the prayer hall and the Qibla wall.
EVOLUTION of the PROJET We placed a volume containing prayer rooms in the linear park axis with two ablution areas detached from it on each sides of the axis : the mosque is a simple and pure block reflecting the simplicity and purity of Islam and the ablutions rooms separated from the project. In the same approach, the project removes any element of ornamentation. So the well-being will be provided by light, materials and vegetation, gardens introduced inside of the mosque. The project contains elements from nature inspired by the description of Paradise (plants, water…) The mosque volume is then rotated according to the Mecca Axis, creating a rectangular prayer room facing the Qibla. The Creek Tower axis creates a fracture in the building, a source of light that crosses the whole building
The project is translating the metaphor of prayer, which is the contact of a faithful on the ground to transcend to heaven. Thus the mosque is buried halfway and emerges to the sky in search of light. Ablutions will be buried covered by water basin visible from inside the ablution rooms and integrated in a large plaza that highlights the mosque which is a silent monolithic mosque that emerges from the ground. The transcendence is translated by a ramp beginning at the point where the bridge joins the project. The transcendent course of the ramp ends with the emergence of a purified minaret leading to the roof. The light penetrates the project in two ways: zenithal arriving to the men’s prayer room from the fracture that splits the mosque, and laterally through openwork skin of Koranic verdicts so to speak that the path to god is the path of light. The work of materials is about alternating between opaque white concrete and openwork red brick concrete that gives materiality to the project and brings the light inside of it.
MOSQUE PLACE
ICONIC CREEK MOSQUE DUBAI CREEK HARBOUR
PLANS 1/500+PROGRAM
WOMEN PRAING AREA
library
kitchen
JARDINIERE
ENTREE PRINCIPALE
-5.5 m
ABLUTIONS HOMMES
ABLUTIONS HOMMES
GA RD EN
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WOMEN PRAING AREA LIBRARY
SAHN
kitchen
SALLE DE PRIERE FEMME
ENTRY HALL
WOMEN ENTRANCE ENTREE FEMME
WOMEN ENTRANCE
SALLE DE PRIERE HOMME
JARDINIERE
PARKING ENTRANCE
RANGEMENT
HALL D'ENTREE
library
MOSQUE PLACE SHOES SHELVES
-5 m
JARDINIERE LOGEMENT IMAM
KITCHEN
JARINIERE
ARCHIVAGE ET BIBLIOTHEQUE IMAM
PATIO SDB 8
SDB
15 x 185 = 280
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BIBLIOTHEQUE
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PATIO
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JARDINIERE
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IMAM RESIDENCE
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SAHN
SAHN
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MIHRAB
-5 m
GREEN BRIDGE
ENTREE
TOWARDS CREEK TOWER
BRIDGE
15
MECQUE
PARKING ENTRANCE ENTREE BIBLIOTHEQUE ET ACCES AU TOIT
ENTREE
PARKING ENTRANCE
QUIBLA
WOMEN ENTRANCE
LU TIO NS
MEN PRAING AREA
AB
payer me room underground 1
ABLUTION
QUIBLA
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ENTRY HALL
WOMEN PRAING AREA LIBRARY
ENTRY HALL
MOSQUE PLACE SHOES SHELVES
Garden
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TOWARDS CREEK TOWER
GREEN BRIDGE
GREEN BRIDGE
MEN PRAING AREA SAHN
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IMAM SPACE
SAHN
MIHR AB
IMAM RESIDENCE
PARKING ENTRANCE
ABLUTION
ELEVATIONS 1/200
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PARKING plan underground 2
Right side facade
Left side elevation
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Program The program is simple and contains a buried men’s prayer room and a buried plaza marked by the abundance of the water and the spaces of imam including the exits of the parking area in the basement level. The women’s prayer area, library and Imam’s accommodation occupy the ground floor. The half-covered Roof is accessible from the minaret to highlight the fracture of the mosque and to protect the faithful from the strong sun of the region. The parking area is placed in the 2nd basement. The mosque is self-powered by photovoltaic panels mirrors covering the fracture and the minaret
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PRAYER HARDS THE ROOF
EST ELEVATION QUIBLA
ENTRY LIBRARY AND MINARET
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