Mosque
Reykjavík
Iceland
2015

 

Status: 
competition, honourable mention
Reykjavík , Iceland
Client: 
The association of Icelandic architects and The muslim association of Iceland
Sourse: 
international competition
Type: 
religius/cultural
Project team: 
Aleš Žnidaršič
Katja Žlajpah
Katja Martinčič
Vesna Vraničar
Visualisation
Sanel Muranović
Anže Podgornik
  • internatinal competition, honourable mention

Organization in 4 parts

The entire area is considered as a whole, with the design based on the artistic composition of stringing geometrical forms – the square. With its playful layout, that slips and shifts of the basic form of a square, thus achieving dynamic sequences of seemingly independent four cubes – blocks, achieving fragmented spatial sequences. This connotes with the overall idea of the primal, archetypical style of stringing spaces in the context of the mosque, that join the central building of the oratory as meaningful additions. The primary arrangement lays down the axial defined setting of an oratory cube, representing the biggest building mass of the centre. The exact layout of other blocks surrounds the inner, central courtyard. The latter represents an intermediate link between the individual cubes through which the empty space meanders through the location.