Contemporary Mosques Conventional and Innovative Approach in Mosque design at Turkey

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 37 - 44, 31.07.2019

Zahraa Alkhaled

Abstract

Mosques are spaces that are prepared to be
proper for praying and worshipping they are one of the most repeated building
types in Muslim countries and consist to be potentially a visual attraction and a landmark in metropolitans. Turkey is rich in term of the mosque design and
had its own unique linkage with the ottoman mosque design, on the other hand in the main time the innovation produced can be observed for various architectural
forms that immerge to mosque design to create innovative mosque styles that are
new interpretation or abstraction of the conventional mosque architectural
elements. Moreover, the traditional imitated mosques are
using different constructional technologies and building materials that
separated them to be within the classification of the traditional ones. In
order to classify the styles of the mosques based on a coherent style
expressions which were distinguished into looking for two main distances from
traditional wise to modern wise.

 

This article aims to define the contemporary
mosques and represent the critic's attempts to create a classification for the
contemporary mosque’s expressions based on the style. And based on the approach
followed in the mosque design. The paper is qualitative analytical based,
demonstrate the appropriate classification for the mosque expressions by
looking to the traditional and modernity dimensions. And the categorization of
the innovative approach and the conventional ones. analyze the sorting of
prominent designs of contemporary mosque architecture in turkey and introduce a
contemporary case study. In order to lead for classification and evaluation
of the contemporary styles expression and approaches based on the architectural
values.

Keywords

Mosque design, style expression, Contemporary mosque, Innovative approach

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