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Bioclimatic Community Mosque


History


Covid-19 pandemic that hit the world on early 2020 might have impacted every region differently. Indonesia, as a country with the biggest population of Muslim, has more than 1 million of mosque in early quarter of 2020 and growing. With a deep rooted culture and religious background, mosque has performed a deeper function into society that serves more than just a place of worship, oftentimes, it took shape as a community center, meeting place, even for some developing country, a recreational space.

Urban and Architectural


Bioclimatic Community Mosque aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on the essence of religious space. RAD+ar was experimenting on how the building could breathe 100% natural ventilation system, by creating 3 tiers of stack effect variation and temperature differences and 15m of breathable wall enveloping the space within.

In the middle off construction in January 2020, while the outbreak of Covid happened, RAD+ar has decided to replace 95% of it’s vertical wall elements with 30.000 custom made design of roster bricks. By maintaining the interior temperature within 25 to 28 degrees with the minimum wind speed of 1m/s, design were to create basically a sheltered “outdoor-like” mosque with dynamic clay roster façade walls opening for visual privacy. Although volumetric approach was taken in the form making of the façade, design was taking account of topicality of harsh sunlight and heavy rain, by creating internal garden surrounding the façade and loop of gutter.

Bioclimatic design was an obvious direction to adopt that utilizes it’s extreme lumen from solar energy as 12 hours indirect natural lighting toward the bulks of the mosque and other related environmental resources to provide indoor and outdoor human thermal comfort, such as detailed technique for cross ventilation (inlet-outlet variation, usage of roster, side and top shaded opening for stack effects).
Façade experimentation allows the building to have sufficient lumen ( 250 to 600 lux) without allowing the heat emitted from the sun. As the façade were using clay as its main material, the time lag is shorter and do not emit the heat within during nighttime.
Unique site plot and contour enable the ground floor to be semi sunken between the soil, 90cm horizontal strip of opening cut the building into two, allowing streams of cool air (condensed with water particle) to be contain on the ground floor moving in 2.5 m/s and slowly stacking up diagonally following some puncture on the plan and the opening on the façade.
Design replace the iconic Islamic dome (which mostly a quintessential characteristic of mosques) with a plate of active green roof to cool down top most plates and to reduce enormous urban heat island contributed to the surrounding environment. This were viewed as a movement to redefining Islamic spaces in postmodern context and needs based on accustomed necessity.
With a capacity to accommodate approximately 1,000 people, the mosque is also designed to blend with nature and local culture. As the interior space were basically a shaded outdoor space, wind speed were varies, this was found to be quite effective to tackle the problem of large gathering indoor during airborne pandemic such Covid-19 that happened recently.

Description


Bioclimatic Community Mosque aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on the essence of religious space.

References


https://www.designverse.com.cn/content/home/article/bioclimatic-community-mosque-of-pamulang-radar

https://www.hhlloo.com/a/Bioclimatic-Community-Mosque-of-Pamulang.html

https://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/entries/bioclimatic-mosque-of-pamulang-community/

https://www.archdaily.com/945843/bioclimatic-community-mosque-of-pamulang-rad-plus-ar-research-artistic-design-plus-architecture?ad_medium=office_landing&ad_name=article


Details

Location

Pamulang, South Tangerang City, Banten, Indonesia

Worshippers

1500

Architect Name

RAD+ar

Year of Build

2020

Area

1200

Drawings

Map

History

Covid-19 pandemic that hit the world on early 2020 might have impacted every region differently. Indonesia, as a country with the biggest population of Muslim, has more than 1 million of mosque in early quarter of 2020 and growing. With a deep rooted culture and religious background, mosque has performed a deeper function into society that serves more than just a place of worship, oftentimes, it took shape as a community center, meeting place, even for some developing country, a recreational space.

Urban and Architectural

Bioclimatic Community Mosque aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on the essence of religious space. RAD+ar was experimenting on how the building could breathe 100% natural ventilation system, by creating 3 tiers of stack effect variation and temperature differences and 15m of breathable wall enveloping the space within.

In the middle off construction in January 2020, while the outbreak of Covid happened, RAD+ar has decided to replace 95% of it’s vertical wall elements with 30.000 custom made design of roster bricks. By maintaining the interior temperature within 25 to 28 degrees with the minimum wind speed of 1m/s, design were to create basically a sheltered “outdoor-like” mosque with dynamic clay roster façade walls opening for visual privacy. Although volumetric approach was taken in the form making of the façade, design was taking account of topicality of harsh sunlight and heavy rain, by creating internal garden surrounding the façade and loop of gutter.

Bioclimatic design was an obvious direction to adopt that utilizes it’s extreme lumen from solar energy as 12 hours indirect natural lighting toward the bulks of the mosque and other related environmental resources to provide indoor and outdoor human thermal comfort, such as detailed technique for cross ventilation (inlet-outlet variation, usage of roster, side and top shaded opening for stack effects).
Façade experimentation allows the building to have sufficient lumen ( 250 to 600 lux) without allowing the heat emitted from the sun. As the façade were using clay as its main material, the time lag is shorter and do not emit the heat within during nighttime.
Unique site plot and contour enable the ground floor to be semi sunken between the soil, 90cm horizontal strip of opening cut the building into two, allowing streams of cool air (condensed with water particle) to be contain on the ground floor moving in 2.5 m/s and slowly stacking up diagonally following some puncture on the plan and the opening on the façade.
Design replace the iconic Islamic dome (which mostly a quintessential characteristic of mosques) with a plate of active green roof to cool down top most plates and to reduce enormous urban heat island contributed to the surrounding environment. This were viewed as a movement to redefining Islamic spaces in postmodern context and needs based on accustomed necessity.
With a capacity to accommodate approximately 1,000 people, the mosque is also designed to blend with nature and local culture. As the interior space were basically a shaded outdoor space, wind speed were varies, this was found to be quite effective to tackle the problem of large gathering indoor during airborne pandemic such Covid-19 that happened recently.

Description

Bioclimatic Community Mosque aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on the essence of religious space.