ONUR YASER CAN

Mosque Architecture

Phase 1: The plan starts with a mesh system that is produced by

the reproduction of a 80x160 cm unit  in the direction of mecca and representing the believers taking side or the users in architectural terms

This system is joined its focal point by a curvilinear element that is placed in its center.

This point is the focus of central absolute volume and is the starting point of the weight distribution of the covering formed via the mesh system. Linear mesh system deforms and bends when it approaches the focal point. This way there is no need for a third element that provides the transformation between two main forms. The produced system is initially bound to 3 parameters:

1.      Mesh unit quantity

2.      The first diameter of the curvilinear form

3.      The second diameter of the curvilinear form

 

Phase 2: This consists of the ascent of the singular covering formed by the system according to given cross section values in the third dimension. These elevations is pulled in the human size scale and kept at 3 meters at the courtyard entries. It rises to 4 meters at the riwaqs surrounding the courtyard area, to 8 meters at the final crowd courtyard and closed place, to 16 meters at the top of the main site and to 32 meters at the minaret. Therefore an absolute mesh-covering that increases continuously from the zero level, carries itself via distributing the weight from the center to the side, tears when necessary and becomes conducive while becoming lighter as elevates is formed.

 

Phase 3: This phase consists of forming circular openings for getting light on the covering by reflecting the main scheme to all units in the mesh. The main system composed of perpendicular form and curvilinear form is repeated in a fractal manner in the mesh unit that is the smallest structural element. Hence, thanks to the continuous flow of singular covering, feelings of a closed space and an open space mixes in between; sky and light gush into the closed space. 

The covering comes and goes between existent and non-existent, between closed and open. The façade system separating the courtyard and its wall and that can be opened by assembling; as a result bears the possibility of merging the two sites if desired; completes this mentioned effect.