UNDERSTANDING LIGHT, MOSQUE AND ARCHITECTURE Research and Design Exploration

MUHAMMAD ZUHDI BIN ABDULLAH CF190003 medium between the building, illumination of light surfaces the interior that create a certain mood that is suitable for the worshippers as it doesn’t have a constitution, image or figures in the interior spaces of mosques.

Figure 2.1 shows how the large volume is created with large pillar supporting the dome

There are few mosque for an example, Selimiye Mosque that is located in Edirne that have been built in 1568 and the construction finished on 1574 during the Ottoman Empire. The main dome with length of 31 meter in diameter, the mosque rise up to 454 meter above ground level. The pillar known as elephant pillar that are 3.75 meter in diameter withstand the pressure coming from the dome. The upper part of the pillar are combined with walls that strengthen the piers and walls allowing the composition to create a huge internal spaces that highlight the unity and oneness of the internal space. The Semiliye Mosque cover the whole interior with a single dome. The inside of the mosque have a perfect built that distribute lights inside the room equally on every point.

Due to it non load bearing wall, it gives a result that windows are operatable to give light evenly from every angle. Due to this, there are a lot more room to place a different size of windows on all the walls without compromising its load bearing structure. As stated above, the distribution of light are equally on every point it is also reflect back to the meaning of what is Light, what is Light in terms of architecture and what is Light in terms of Islamic Architecture, a connection between human and its God. The extend of this can be understandable with the distribution of light is equal with that to be put into a meaning of all