Project description
Ecotech was appointed to design a state-of-the-art mosque facility and the building is a religious structure, which has become a requirement for the new emerging habitat. Al-Nur Mosque reunites Ottoman style with today’s construction technology by connecting tradition and integrating the tradition and technology in Ottoman-Turkish style, which forms the pinnacle of the religious architecture of Islamic civilisation, without any repetition.
The mosque is in the pursuit of a new horizon in the mosque architecture by uniting “the part in the whole” and “the whole in the part” notion with the fractal character of the nautilus form and the inspiration of millenarian traditional ceiling technic. The mosque leans to Mecca with a diagonal settlement at the building site. By this settlement, specific spaces are defined to serve to definite functions. Parallel lines are dominant throughout the project.
The organization of functions and spaces are emphasized by this parallel settlement. So that different functions were able to become a part of the whole. The mosque is placed in a service station area in relation to its environment but also abstracts itself with its introverted structure and the meaning it connotes. The minaret of the mosque also emphasizes the linear arrangements of the spaces by its design.
