Dubai Creek Eid Mosque, Masterplan and Landscape Design, Cooperation with Ta_Tabanlioglu Architects, July 2017

This project, in cooperation with Tabanlioglu Architects, creates a building with the effect of an icon on a carpet of specific kind overlooking a creek: Artificially generated urban space, elevated over roads and open spaces below. This open space frames the mosque spatially as if the mosque would open up like a large flower of a broadly extended plant, emerging from it’s body. This elevated framework of space is structured by a seemingly organic grid of tiles with oval opening for plantages (high beds) of palms and flowering plants below. The building supports the perception of open space as a coherent context of “highest location” of different levels of space, allowing access to the mosque.