portfolio FARAH ROZHAN
MAJOR PROJECT sacred geometry
Melbourne is a cultural melting pot of settlers from all corners of the globe with different religious beliefs. Melbourne’s Muslim community is scattered throughout the metropolitan area but is particularly numerous in the northern suburbs. Muslim religious life in Melbourne is centred in more than 25 mosques and a large number of prayer rooms at university campuses, workplaces and other venues. This project aims to address the cultural and societal need by providing a mosque, consolidating these informal praying areas particularly in the CBD as a provision to the Muslim city community. This project also aspires to transform the cultural and traditional link within the local society by challenging the contrasting relationship between: Control vs freedom, Segregation vs diversity, Order vs messiness/serendipity This project intends to challenge the traditional typology and the ideological manifestation of mosques and make apparent the social logic of it instead. Mosques in history have been influenced by the local environment, vernacular features and also availability or permanent building materials. The proposed mosque revolves around two main concepts: beauty - based on Islamic geometry as a spatial expression of the Islamic doctrine AND transformation - achieved through the extraction of rules from historical Islamic architecture and their reinterpretation within the contemporary context. These architectural concepts establish an original architectural grammar of a mosque, which can then be adapted, changed or re-used by a certain Islamic community towards new formal interpretations.
“serenity is the great and true antidote against anguish and fear, and today, more than ever, it is the architects duty to make of it a permanent guest in the home, no matter how sumptuous or humble.�
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MICHAEL SPOONER lunacy and the arrangment of books
SOPHIE DYRING greyfields
ANGELA WODA MONIQUE BRADYWARD cream
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