Evaluation of the prayer hall proportions for masjids in Erbil City the Masjids built between “1980-1989” and “2000-2015” as case study

Joint Authors

Abd al-Hamid, Nazik J.
Qadir, Vian S.
Ali, Ansam S.

Source

ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

Publisher

Salahaddin University-Erbil Department of Scientific Publications

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

13

Main Subjects

Architecture Engineering

English Abstract

The design of any building depends on the elements and principles of design which are the basic needs in architectural design.

The masjid design started with a simple form which used for multiple functions as led it to become religious, social and political center in the cities.

Therefore, the design of masjids as any other buildings has changed across the history and varies from region to region and from period to period.

The masjid building is composed of many elements which have different classifications as some of them classified them as; (functional and symbolic elements), (constant and variable elements), (basic, complementary and extra elements) and so on.

Thus, these elements should be taken into consideration in designing masjids as each of them has its own proportion.

From here this study started to seek to find the proportion of some elements in the masjid design in Erbil city in order to compare them with each other and with the standard proportions too.

Thus, the general problem of the study is determined as ; “The implementation of a design which is not suitable for the site led to have many loosed spaces in the masjid design in Erbil city”, in order to specify the scope of the study, the research problem is; “There are many masjids in Erbil city which has taken only prayer hall into consideration without considering the proportion of other elements”.

The main aim of the study is to find a proper proportion for each element according to the prayer hall in order to have a suitable design by taking the site into consideration.

The study takes some samples in Erbil’s masjids which their area is above 1000m² so that to compare them with the known proportions which have found in literature review.

Thus, the study concludes that neglecting the number of users and the proportion of each element led to lose the basic principles of design in masjid buildings.

The study recommends the architects to take these points into consideration in the design of masjid buildings.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-787289

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