Mosque in nordic context
Author
Aslam, Mahtab
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2010
Submitted on
2010-06-22
Abstract
This thesis explores how to design a mosque with an accompanying cultural center in a Nordic, Arctic context, using Tromsø in Northern Norway as the site. Taking the Alnor Islamic Centre (around 350 members) as a case and responding to its ambition to establish the world’s northernmost mosque, the project seeks a new mosque typology that honors the sacred purpose of worship while providing shared social and cultural functions across community boundaries. The chosen location is a redeveloping industrial area on Tromsø’s eastern harbor front. Methodologically, the project applies an integrated design process structured into program, sketching, detailing, and presentation phases. The program phase includes analyses of site, urban structure and movement, landscape, materiality, and climate (including wind, midnight sun, dark season, and northern lights), as well as typological and historical studies of mosque and sacred architecture, daylight, and acoustics. The functional program is developed by the author in dialogue with the congregation. The aim is a complex with strong spatial and material qualities that unites ritual prayer space with cultural activities and may help narrow cultural divides in the city. The initial chapters establish the vision, design parameters, and room program as the foundation for the subsequent architectural solution; specific design outcomes are presented in later parts of the thesis.
Denne afhandling undersøger, hvordan en moské med et tilhørende kulturcenter kan designes i en nordisk, arktisk kontekst med udgangspunkt i Tromsø, Nordnorge. Med Alnor Islamic Centre (ca. 350 medlemmer) som case og et ønske om at etablere verdens nordligste moské, søger projektet at udvikle en ny mosketypologi, der både respekterer moskéens sakrale formål og skaber rammer for fælles sociale og kulturelle aktiviteter på tværs af kulturelle skel. Placeringen er en omdannet industrizone ved den østlige havnefront i Tromsø. Metodisk anvendes den integrerede designproces, struktureret i faserne program, skitsering, detaljering og præsentation. Programfasen omfatter analyser af sted, bystruktur og bevægelse, landskab, materialitet og klima (herunder vind, midnatssol, mørketid og nordlys), samt typologiske og historiske studier af moskéarkitektur, hellig arkitektur, dagslys og akustik. Funktionsprogrammet udvikles af forfatteren i dialog med menigheden. Projektet sigter mod et anlæg med stærke rumlige og materielle kvaliteter, hvor rituelt bønnerum og kulturelle funktioner forenes og kan bidrage til at mindske kulturelle afstande i byen. De præsenterede indledende kapitler fastlægger vision, designparametre og rumprogram som grundlag for den efterfølgende arkitektoniske løsning; konkrete designresultater fremgår af senere dele af afhandlingen.
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Aslam, Mahtab:
- Mosque in Nordic Context (2010)