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Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 1

MODERN ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTER

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Modern Islamic Cultural Center Case Study Muhammed Sherwan

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Index Chapter 1 • Introduction 1.1 Thesis Statement 1.2 Definition 1.3 Historical Review 1.4 Project Goals 1.5 The Reasons of Selecting this Project 1.6 Beneficiaries of the Project University of Salahaddin College of Engineering Architectural Department

Case Studier Muhammed Sherwan

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Supervisor Anssam Saleh Ali Year 2015-2016

Chapter 2 • Site Selection 2.1 Locations 2.2 Selected Sites 2.3 Analyzing Sites Chapter 3 • Similar Projects 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 4 • Space Components & Functional Relations 4.1 Space Programs 4.2 Functional Relations

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Introduction Chapter

1

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1.1 Introduction

Chapter Sections 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5

Introduction Definitions Project Goals The Reasons of Selecting this Project Beneficiaries of The Project

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Foreword Buildings, that made for aware people and educate them , about different cultures and societies, to introduce culture of specific nation and to do some activities such as studying & showing.

General The centre concept has its origin in the word latin centrum and can discuss various topics. One of the meanings refers to the place where people meet for a given purpose.

Cultural, meanwhile, is an adjective that means belonging or which refers to the culture. This notion of the term latin cultus, is linked to the intellectual faculties of man and the culture of the human spirit.

A cultural centre i s so space to participate in cultural activities. These centres aim to promote culture among the people of a community.

The structure of a cultural centre can vary depending on the case. Major centres include audiences with scripts, libraries, computer rooms and other spaces with the necessary infrastructure to provide courses or workshops and concerts, plays, movies etc.

The cultural centre is often a meeting point in small communities where people come together to preserve traditions and develop cultural activities that include the participation of the whole family.

As a general rule, the activities of the cultural centres are free or very affordable, so that nobody be dismissed for economic reasons. The property of cultural centres is usually State or cooperative, because it generally non-profit institutions.

Thesis Statement The facility will serve the needs for the Muslims to offer their prayer, to furthertheir knowledge in Islam & combine modern technology and functional forms in the context of Islamic culture and value & aware people about islamic culture also Glorify the islamic relegion and show its true goals.

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1.2 Definitions 1.2.1 Cultural Center Cultural center is an organization ,Building or Complex that promotes culture and arts.

Its a public building with different activities like (social development,Educational space,Cultural space,and commercial.

A place for people to meet around a common cultural theme.

It is a gathering place where people meet to enjoy or partake in cultural activities, often with a specific cultural designation belonging to a particular nationality or regional culture.

1.3 Project Goals 1.2.2 Modern Islamic Cultural Center Is a cultural center promoting religious education and awareness to the society.

It is main function is a cultural, social, research, educational activity and worshiping, it will be a modern and contemporary center & make people understand the true islam .

Since the majority of population in Erbil city in Kurdistan are islamic so there is a need for such building.

1. Religious To Preservate of Islamic culture and traditions & learn more about the spirit of islam.

To Protect the country heritage . to satisfy the needs of a contemporary religious community.

The facility will serve the needs for the Muslims to offer their prayer.

2. Cultural To go more deep to understaning the islamic religious.

3. Education To promote Islamic education.

To extend the traditional vocabulary of the mosque into a more conteprary model. to furthertheir knowledge in Islam aware people about islamic culture

Activities may include speaking a particular language, watching or performing any of various arts, cooking and eating the cuisine of the designated culture.

4. Symbolic

Figure 1.1 • Basra Cultural Center, Basra, Iraq, chairman and MD of Dewan, 2014.

To create a symbolic building that inhance the islamic tradition & culture.

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5.Social The goal is also to fosterhamonous relationship to promote friendship andunderstanding among the Islamic community through interaction.

A system to centralize social, cultural, and religious activities into a unifying scheme.

1.4 The Reasons of Selecting this Project There is no practical center specializ ing in Islamic studies.

Lack of such similar project in the city.

Correct the wrong ideas about islam.

Lack availability so that the project control as a center of Islamic architecture of the city of expression for the Islamic identity of the city of Erbil.

6.Sustainability Usage of natural light in order to provide healthy communities and a sustainable natural environment by meeting the needs of the present.

1.5 Beneficiaries of The Project 1. The community.

2. The visitors to Erbil city.

3. Ministry of Culture.

4. Tourism.

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Site selection& Evaluation Chapter

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Chapter Sections 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6

Chapter Introduction In this chapter three site being to select in order to evaluate them and selecting one of them as a main site to design the proposal project on it.

Locations Erbil master plan Analysis of Site 1 Analysis of Site 2 Analysis of Site 3 Evaluation of sites

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10 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 2.1 Locations Erbil Geographic Location

Area 438,317 km² Population 2012 31 million Coordinate 33°20′N 44°26′E

Area 390,000 km² Population 2012 6.2 million Coordinate 37°00′N 43°00′E

Area 15,074 km² Population 2013 1.6 million Coordinate 36°11′28″N 44°0′33″E

Urban life at Erbil (Hewlêr) can be dated back to at least 6000 BC, and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

2.2 Erbil Master Plan Information

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Erbil is an ancient city in northern Iraq, which historically developed around a circular fortified core to form an important commercial, agricultural, and administrative center. In modern times, the city evolved into an extensive settlement with a defined radial and lateral road network supporting built-up areas of varying land use character. However, the city center suffered from stagnation and lack of investment.

To help reinvigorate the center, Dar Al-Handasah conducted a study on how to encourage investments and stimulate greater private sector participation. We concluded that the following objectives needed to be achieved:

Restructuring dilapidated areas Conserving significant and heritage buildings Maintaining residential uses Providing a network of urban spaces Creating quality urban routes Encouraging new business and development Developing tourism in the city Providing adequate infrastructure and utilities Figure 3.1 • The final master-plan of Erbil city, By (DAR AL-HANDASAH Shair and Partners) showing the three selected alternative locations for the cultural project.

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2.3 Analyzing Site

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2.3.1 Location & Surrounding The site located near of (Dream City) , 4110m from the Erbil Qalat, 100m Road.

2.3.2 Area

2.3.3 Roads & Paths

Area

Roads & Paths

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2.3.4 Massing & Open Spaces

Massing & Open Spaces

14 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 2.3.5 Neighbourhood

2.3.6 Landmarks

Surrounding

Landuse

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2.3.7 Site in 3d

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2.3.8 Satellite image

Satellite image

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2.3.9 Landuses

Landuse

2.3.10 Pedestrian to the site

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2.4 Analyzing Site

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2.4.1 Location & Surrounding The site located at the core of Erbil city, its distance 1524 m from the Erbil CBD, near to the citadel of Erbil. Green area will be a greater part of its surrounding.

2.4.2 Land uses

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2.4.5 Land use

2.4.3 Massing & Open Spaces

2.4.4 Roads & Paths

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2.4.7 Area

2.4.6 Land marks

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2.4.10 Site in 3d

2.4.8 Pedestrian catchment

2.4.9 Satellite image

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2.5 Analyzing Site

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2.5.2 Land uses

2.5.1 Location & Surrounding The site located near of Rizgary hospital , its distance 2600 m from the Erbil CBD, 40m road.

2.5.3 Mass&space

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2.5.4 Roadds

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2.5.5 Land marks

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2.5.6 Pedstrian catchment

2.5.7 Satellite image

2.5.8 Area

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Criteria

W (1-10)

Site (1)

Site (2)

Site (3)

V (1-3)

WˣV

V

WˣV

V

WˣV

8 8 5 6 7 3

2 2 2 1 3 1

16 16 10 6 21 3

3 2 3 3 2 2

24 16 15 18 14 6

1 2 2 2 1 1

16 8 10 12 7 3

6 8 7 6

2 3 1 2

12 24 7 12 127

3 2 3 3

18 16 21 18 166

2 1 1 2

12 8 7 12 95

GENERAL CRITERIA Location Accessibility Positive diversity of land use Distance from the city center Relation with the erbil urban planing Utility & Services PROJECT CRITERIA Flexibility for development and expansion

Attractive points Site effects on the Building Building effects on the Site TOTAL

Table 2.1 • Evaluating the three alternative sites according to several criteria.

W= weight for each criteria from its rate from (1-10) V= Value from (1-3) low, medium & high according to each site & its importance for each criteria.

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Conclusion ●● In terms of land use (land use) note harmony and coordination of the use of the site for Cultural center with neighboring uses of the site. ●● In terms of the heights achieved in the site interface with neighboring sites appropriate for the nature of the project and its flexibility . ●● In terms of the historical importance of the site is best sites. ●● In terms of the importance to preserve the historical value of the ancient city . ●● Cultural significance are available at the site where they were planning to make the area around the castle area cultural culture center where the jobs are close to each other . ●● In terms of its distance in the city center to give the identity of the architecture of the city. ●● Has all the factors that must be provided at the site of the Cultural center.

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Similar Projects Chapter

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Chapter Introduction The similar projects selected according to the benefits which these museums could give us in terms of theoretical ideas and concepts regarding the design of museums, a functional idea for arranging spaces and component relationships, or studying design principles of building typology.

The ability to understand the structure of forms, functions, and diagrams of these three projects will help in constructing the partial design structure of the Mesopotamian museum, because this project is symbolic and it has its own specific monumental strategy to follow, before setting up from another project examples .

Chapter Sections 3.1 3.2 3.3

Museum of Islamic Art Islamic Religious and Cultural Center in slovenia Cultural Center in Guadalajara

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30 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 3.1 Museum of Islamic Art 3.1.1 General Information Architects Location Area Style Opening Hours

Year

Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei Doha 35000-msquare Modern The Museum of Islamic Art is open Saturday through Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Museum is closed on Tuesdays, December 25 and the first day of Eid. 2010

3.1.2 Description Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei, the 376,740-squarefoot Museum of Islamic Art in Doha Bay houses a collection of international masterpieces in galleries encircling a soaring, five-storey-high domed atrium. The Museum, an architectural icon 60m (195ft) off Doha’s Corniche, rises from the sea and is connected to shore by two pedestrian bridges and a vehicular bridge. A C-shaped peninsula and park area on the shoreline behind the Museum offer shelter and a picturesque backdrop.

The Museum is composed of a five-storey Main Building and a two-storey Education Wing, which are connected across a central courtyard. The Main Building’s angular volumes step back progressively as they rise around a 50-m-high (164ft) central domed atrium. The dome is concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A sheet of glass rises to a height of 45m (148ft) on the north side of the Museum offering views of the Gulf and West Bay area of Doha from all five floors of the atrium.

Ceilings are constructed of intricate cast-in place architectural concrete coffered domes, finished with individual molds. At the top of the atrium is the circular oculus of a stainless steel dome, which captures facets of patterned light. The form of the dome changes as the structure descends, so its perimeter becomes an octagon and then a square, which in turn is transformed into four triangular column supports.

3.1.3 Concept Mr. Pei’s final design inspiration was the 13th-century sabil (ablutions fountain) of the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo, Egypt (9th century). In the “austerity and simplicity” of the sabil, Mr. Pei stated, he found “a severe architecture that comes to life in the sun, with its shadows and shades of colour” The sabil offered “an almost Cubist expression of geometric progression”which evoked an abstract vision of the key design elements of Islamic architecture.

3.1.4 Project aims The Museum of Islamic Art is dedicated to reflecting the full vitality, complexity and diversity of the arts of the Islamic world. It is a world-class collecting institution, which preserves, studies and exhibits masterpieces spanning three continents and 13 centuries. As a centre for information, research and creativity, the Museum aims to reach a wide global audience and serve as a hub for dialogue and cultural exchange.

3.1.5 Site plan analysis

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32 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 3.1.6 First floor plan

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3.1.7 Second floor plan

the Museum is composed of a five-storey main building and a two-storey Education Wing, which are connected across a central courtyard. The main building’s angular volumes step back progressively as they rise around a 164-foot-high domed atrium, which is concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. At the top of the atrium, an oculus captures and reflects patterned light within the faceted dome. The desert sun plays a fundamental role, transforming the architecture into a play of light and shadows.

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3.1.9 Section

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3.1.10 Elevations& Materials

3.1.11 Materials Built of fine materials, such as cream-coloured Magny and Chamesson limestone from France, Jet Mist granite from the United States and stainless steel from Germany, as well as architectural concrete from Qatar The galleries, designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte from Paris, France feature dark grey porphyry stone and Louro Faya, a Brazilian lacewood that was brushed and treated to create a metallic appearance, which contrast with the light-coloured stonework of the rest of the Museum. To protect the fragile antiquities on display, the exhibition rooms feature specially designed cases and lighting. Mr. Wilmotte also created custom furniture for the museum, inspired by Pei’s architectural style.

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The Museum’s education programs are housed in a 29,000-square-foot wing, located to the east of the main building across a fountain courtyard. The Education Wing, scheduled to open late 2009, includes a light-filled reading room in the Museum library, classrooms, workshops, study spaces, and technical and storage facilities. Among the latter is the conservation laboratory, an important new resource for the entire region. Underscoring the central role of education in the Museum of Islamic Art, the Education Wing will host educational and community activities to develop and foster an understanding and appreciation for Islamic art.

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A glass curtain wall on the north side of the Museum offers panoramic views of the Gulf and West Bay area of Doha from all five floors of the atrium. Ceilings are embellished with intricate coffered domes, and perforated metal chandeliers hang in the atrium. Two more lanterns, each 100 feet tall, mark the boat dock on the west side of the Museum, creating a grand entrance for guests arriving by boat.

Facilities Two floors of permanent exhibition galleries One main temporary gallery Two outdoor courtyards flank the vast atrium area A 197-seat auditorium Prayer halls for men and women A gift and bookshop A world-class conservation lab and object storage A library and closed rare-books study section Classrooms and offices

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Dimensions space Total building Total gallery space

area 35,500sq m 4,225sq m

Permanent gallery space Temporary gallery space Study galleries

3,100sq m

Library

820sq m

Conservation lab

400sq m

Collection storage

1,800sq m

Auditorium

430sq m

Restaurant

380sq m

Ceremonial entrance & bridge

280sq m

750sq m 375sq m

40 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 3.2 Islamic Religious and Cultural Center in slovenia 3.2.1 General Information Architects Location Style

Nejc Černigoj, Andrej Černigoj slovenia Modern

3.2.2 Description The Islamic religious society aims to build an Islamic religious and cultural center (IRCC) to provide the necessary space for its activities and gain more attention through architectural presence in the public realm of traditionally Christian city of Ljubljana. The goal is that IRRC would not become a closed and introverted building complex, but rather an open and accessible place of tolerant mutual understanding and dia-

log between two cultures.

A symbiotic coexistence of local and Islamic is symbolically firstly present in the very urban composition. The typical north-west rectangular street grid of Ljubljana is reflected in the rectangular structural grid of the new building and in the tree pattern in the park, and is interwoven with the sacred Islamic direction towards Mecca, to which the spaces for religious service are oriented.

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3.2.5 Components

3.2.3 Basement

3.2.4 Site Plan & Circulation The building is located in a park, with the exterior extending into the interior without any functionally disturbing changes of floor level. That way, the public park in front of the project serves as place of gathering and interaction, directly connected to the fluid and open common space in the interior. To emphasize this continuity, even the grid of the newly planted trees continues in the interior, only the type of trees changing from the acacia in the outside to orange trees in the inside.

The ground floor is organized as open plan space with pavilions hosting public facilities (bookstore with info point, restaurant and a room for social events). Above, three double story longitudinal building volumes with offices, classrooms and residential units hover under the glass roof. To preserve as much open floor area as possible, the large volumes of auditorium and sports hall are located underground, along with the three story parking garage.

That way the entire ground floor becomes a flexible and fluid open space.

The aromatic and visually pleasant fruit of the orange trees enriches the inside atmosphere, reflecting the traditional Arabic gardens.

Due to its size, functional reasons and specifics of the site, the project has two main entrances, a northern and a south one. In front of each entrance is a larger park with trees in the pavement, used as a shaded square.

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In the part of the building where the cultural center is located, a more expressive pattern is used, reflecting a lively atmosphere inside, whereas a calm rectangular pattern is applied on the facade of the prayer hall.

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3.2.6 Structural Analysis The Structure is reflected in the rectangular structural grid of the new building and in the tree pattern in the park, and is interwoven with the sacred Islamic direction towards Mecca, to which the spaces for religious service are oriented.

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46 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 3.3 Cultural Center in Guadalajara 3.3.1 General Information Architects Location Area Style Year

PM²G Architects Guadalajara, Mexico 5,000 sqm Modern 2013

3.3.2 Description Designed by PM²G Architects, in collaboration with Satellite Architectes & Menu Design, their iconic proposal project for a new cultural center in Guadalajara embodies and catalyzes the cultural scene over the Chapultepec Avenue besides forming a new attraction for the city. Their design, which was awarded an honorable mention, includes a series of three alternate solids that are combined with transparent and concave spaces. The rotation of the volumes towards the sky gives the building its dynamic and spectacular force. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Guadalajara is known as the 2nd most populous municipality in Mexico and the well-known vertical architectural route of the Guggenheim Museum in New York is reinterpreted here in the new Chapultepec Cultural Center project. In this case, however, unlike the Frank Lloyd Wright scheme, the route turns to the city and thus provides visitors a 360° view of the city of Guadalajara.

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48 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study 3.3.3 Ground plan

3.3.4 Auditorium plan

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space

restaurant

exhibition

lobby theatre loung auditorium vertical circulation service

area 500-310 m2400-230 m2 190 m2 380 m2 230 m2 260-500-500 m2 60 m2 30 m2

A monumental staircase, “part of the tradition of Mexican pre-Hispanic architecture” evokes the ascension into heaven, allowing to wander the building and at the same time serving as a podium and terrace to display certain works of art; this possibility extends from the inside out, becoming an external tour and concluding with a panoramic terrace, the stair as a magical space to exhibit, contemplate and communicate, a walk in the pleasant climate of Guadalajara.

The exhibition halls, including 300 and 500 m² spaces, are composed by generous spaces with great heights designed to accommodate different types of art. Going from the White Cube hosting classical painting and photography exhibitions where lighting is indirect and natural. Moreover, the Black Box designed as a space for video projection and installations.

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3.3.6 Restaurant plan

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The auditorium space has been designed to offer great flexibility to adapt to all kinds of shows, dance and theater as well as conferences, workshops and projections. The retractable seating once extended offers optimum visibility for each of the 200 spectators, and releases the space when retracting (disappear) in the back of the room, thus becoming an ideal place for concerts, and more.

The stage is slightly elevated, the backstage space has com-

fortable dimensions and can be opened to the auditorium in the case of major events that require it; addition to this, a small room to be used by the entire production team completes the device.

The white concrete poetic facade is composed by a series of ruled surfaces perforated in a dotted evolutionary pattern, in some cases, the perforations as windows, others as mirrors and some cases as luminous LED spots. Thus, the

facade is crafted to reflect the sky with a gradient from top to bottom, revealing an evolutionary play of light throughout the day. Beyond the monumental staircase, visitors have easy access to each level through a vertical circulation core. The compact core is the backbone of the building and serves to effectively distribute the flow of people and cargo transportation.

52 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study The ground floor opens onto the city calling and inviting people to come to the inside; an entrance hall containing a ticket office, cloakroom and control, as well as a library and a small cafe are responsible for receiving public warmly. The access to the underground parking and the loading bay area are located on the minor street that faces the terrain, the last being directly connected to the freight elevator and warehouses for supply purposes.

The structural system of the building is composed of a concrete central core and a network of columns located with and offset of 6mts from the façade and intertwined by a series of cantilever metal beams of varying dimensions according to seismic requirements.

3.3.7 Site plan

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Concusion

Space 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Components

Similar project Similar project Similar project 1 2 3 Entrance&lobby * * * Exhibition * * * Storage * * * Administration * Offices * * Education&train* * * ing Public Education * Parking Security * * * Restaurant * * Entartainment * * * meeting * * Lecture * * lab * theatre *

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Space program Chapter

4

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Chapter Introduction The zoning diagram of function and activities defines the relationship between areas and gives the functional diagrams for the new museum complex, in term of public/nonpublic/collection area, access and circulation based on proximity chart, produced by the project coordinator upon available information as a first assessment of the real needs of the museum. The main principle of access and circulation in the museum, essential for a good functioning of all activities, is the separation of public and non-public pattern, in order to ensure comfort and security to the visitors, the museum’s staff and the objects.

Chapter Sections 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6

58 Modern Islamic Cultural Center • Case Study Space program calculation

The capacity of the project

The calculation of the project depended on:

Factors that control the size of the project : 1. The need for functional learned from the project for the purpose of function performance to the fullest depending on: • quantity supplied from antiquities pieces • size of the pieces • Historical Capacity of cultural center 2. Service need for the project which represented by : • Capacity of laboratories depending on the sizes of the pieces and prepared and high of equipment’s also method of processing and storage.

• Current and future expectations of visitor numbers and parking.

1-Erbil ministry of culture standards 2-Standards

3. Administrative spaces to serve the cultural center at the level of the scope of the area that dating and documenting these spaces.

Erbil ministry of culture standards

4. Civilization Division and capacity every age also expected future possibilities.

Population Analysis The population of Erbil city is estimated in (2015) as 1,924,877 people.

5. Required information aspect for establishing the cultural center.

The average annual increase of population of Erbil is about 3% per year, in other word, it is about 49,051 persons per year, where the inhabitants’ ratio at the urban areas is about 80% and 20% in the countryside.

But we should neglect the age between (0-4) of population that not coming to the museums, so According to Body count of Kurdistan region the total population without (0-4) =1676899 p.

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PTarget = PNow (1 + r)n *Keys: P= Population n= Target Years r= Growth Average

P2040 = P2015 (1 + r)n = 1,676,899 (1 + 0.03)25 = 3,511,054 citizen

total 247978 260875 208348 229244 213620 172435 139589 117438 80821 51331 62255 41209 27054 25132 18820 16256 12472 1676899

3,511,054

2040

1,676,899

2015 0

1,000,000

2,000,000

3,000,000

female 121312 127219 100219 110968 105313 85635 69982 56918 41156 28947 32106 21373 13770 13460 9778 8397 7088

male 126666 133656 108129 118276 108307 86800 69607 60520 39665 22384 30149 19836 13284 11672 9042 7859 5384

age 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 75-79 80+ TOTAL

table 5.1 choosing the number of population between the target year

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Erbil ministry of culture standards According to the Ministry of Culture, the visitors to cultural centers in Erbil reach 20% of the population of Erbil.

According to the Ministry of Culture the average of tourists for the cultural centers =%12

3,511,054* %20 =702210 Number of visitors to cultural centers .

The visitors from students: According to the ministry of Education the number of students in Erbil =430,620 students, and %20 from the students visit the cultural centers annually through school trips so : 430620*0.20 =86124 86124/365=236 student daily and %12 of the students visit the cultural centers, so:

So 702210 /365 = 1923 visitors to the cultural centers daily from Erbil’s populations.

According to the Ministry of Culture, the average of visitors to cultural centers=%12 so : 1923*0.12 =230p daily .

According to the ministry of truism the average number of tourists in Erbil till 2040 =1,311,322 p. and %75 of those peoples visit the cultural centers and the historical places so: 1311322/365=3592 3592*0.75=2694p. So :

2694*0.12=323 daily p.

236*0.12=28

Also according to the ministry of the culture the visitors from the other Iraqi cities =%50 of the visitors of the Erbil city so : 230*0.50= 115 p.

The Total Visitors To Project = P.

700

Designing program Total+ %25 For Movement = 7893 m2 7893 + %35 For Landscape = 10655 m2 ( Total Area For The Project )

Area of the project=10655m2

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Space program

# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Space management restaurant entrance mosque ceremony hall medya library seminar hall museum 6315 m²

Net Area (m²) 300 500 550 1180 1250 600 760 700 500

Designing program Total+ %25 For Movement = 7893 m2 7893 + %35 For Landscape = 10655 m2 ( Total Area For The Project )

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Entrance #

Space

1 information 2 entrance 3 service(wc)

Users

m2/p

2 600 3

1 1 1

Net Area (m²) 20 360 10

No. of Spaces 1 1 2

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 20 360 20

Net Area (m²) 40 575 145 25 30 30 18 20

No. of Spaces 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 40 575 145 25 30 30 18 20

400 m²

Mosque # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Space entrance prayer hall for men prayer hall for women imam office store wc for men wc for women service

Users 200 500 120 1 1 50 30 1

m2/p 0.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1 1 1 1 1130 m²

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Museum # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Space management exhibition accounts sales space maintenance room camera room store

Users 2 150 1 1 2 2 1

Seminar halls # 1 2 3 4 5

Space entrance+foyer sitting stage store wc

Users 100 300 2 1 3

m2/p 1 1.5 1 1 1 1 1 450 m² m2/p 1 0.5 0.5 1 1 330 m²

Net Area (m²) 20 225 12 30 30 20 50

No. of Spaces 1 1 2 1 1 1 2

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 20 225 24 30 30 20 100

Net Area (m²) 100 150 10 50 20

No. of Spaces 1 1 1 1 1

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 100 150 10 50 20

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Conference halls # 1 2 3 4

Space entrance+foyer sitting stage store

Users 250 300 2 1

m2/p 0.5 0.5 1 1 550 m²

Ceremony halls # 1 hall 1 2 hall 2 3 hall 3

Space

Users 100 200 300

m2/p 1 1 1 1500 m²

Net Area (m²) 125 350 20 20

No. of Spaces 1 1 1 2

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 125 350 20 40

Net Area (m²) 150 250 350

No. of Spaces 2 2 2

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 300 500 700

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Library #

Space

1 entrance 2 borrowing 3 Management Exhibition of religious books 4 5 6 7 8 9

Electronic library Reading & Research room Book store Packaging and binding Printing and cloning

0.5 0.5 1

Net Area (m²) 20 20 20

No. of Spaces 1 1 1

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 20 20 20

150

1

200

1

200

100

1

150

1

150

50

1.4

70

1

70

75

1

100

1

100

2

1

20

1

20

2

1

15

1

15

Users

m2/p

30 10 4

760 m²

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Media center #

Space

0.4 1 1

Net Area (m²) 12 20 15

No. of Spaces 1 1 1

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 12 20 15

1

1

20

1

20

2 2 2 5 2 6 2

1 1 1 1 1 1 1

20 20 20 10 100 60 10

1 1 1 5 2 1 2

20 20 20 50 200 60 20

Users

m2/p

1 Entrance 2 Media center manager 3 Manager assistant

30 1 1

4 Head of publication 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Head of audio & video Studio special women Religion studio in general Montage department Printing press Production department Sales department

600 m²

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Restaurant #

Space

1 1.5 3

Net Area (m²) 15 150 30

No. of Spaces 1 1 1

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 15 150 30

7

1

75

1

75

2 2 2 1 5 5

1 1 1 1 1 1

20 20 40 15 10 6

1 1 1 1 2 2

20 20 40 10 20 12

Users

m2/p

1 100 10

4 Kitchen 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 Entrance 2 Dinning hall 3 Service platform

Cold store Dry store Store Waste Room workers Wc. And laundry

500 m²

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Management #

Space

5 6 7 8 9 10

No. of Spaces 1 1 1

Ʃ Net Area (m²) 30 30 30

1

1

15

1

15

1 1 1 5 2 3

1 1 1 1 1 1

15 15 20 6 20 2

1 1 1 5 2 6

15 15 20 30 40 12

m2/p

1 1 1

Head of administration

Head of cultural events Head of religious events Director of finance

1 director of the center 2 Secretary 3 Meeting room 4

1 1 1

Net Area (m²) 30 30 30

Users

Room staff

Accounts and sels Wc.

600 m²

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Functional relationship & Proximity chart between main space.

Cultural activity

Service

Religious activity Social activity

Direct Relationship Indirect Relationship

Space matrix

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