THE HEALING WATER MOSQUE OF ROYAL DOCKLANDS
by suha faisal valiyaveettil
The project’s ambition is to use water as a symbolic, social and environmental factor to break down social barriers and provide resilient cultural places in the Royal Docklands, an area socially neglected and prone to future flooding. The final design consists of a mosque in which water performs both symbolically – as a spiritual purifier – and environmentally – by using the tidal movement of the Thames to harvest energy. The challenge is combining aesthetic and cultural concerns with environmental ones to set the foundations of a circular local economy and embrace the requirements of simplicity and modesty of Islam.
animation - a concept model of the flooding prototype whose timber frames moves with Thames. the space can intentionally be flooded with collected rainwater to teach children - how to survive a flood
