ICONIC MOSQUE -DUBAI CREEK HARBOUR 2018

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

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WOMEN PRAING AREA LIBRARY

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ENTRY HALL

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SALLE DE PRIERE HOMME

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RANGEMENT

HALL D'ENTREE

library

MOSQUE PLACE SHOES SHELVES

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JARDINIERE LOGEMENT IMAM

KITCHEN

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ARCHIVAGE ET BIBLIOTHEQUE IMAM

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MIHRAB

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GREEN BRIDGE

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MECQUE

PARKING ENTRANCE ENTREE BIBLIOTHEQUE ET ACCES AU TOIT

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ABLUTION

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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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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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