American Madrassah

Abstract

This graduation project is a design for an Islamic community centre and prayerspace in New York City, called Park51. The design is an 80 meter high complex surrounded by buildings on three sides. The front facade is situated at a small street in downtown Manhattan (Park Place 51), two blocks remote from Ground Zero. It houses various rooms for lectures, performances, exhibitions, sports, a library and a restaurant that are elevated above the open-air ground floor. The prayerspace is situated sub-level below the entrance with a lighttower that bursts up out of the ground to get light insight and makes the prayerspace visible from the street. Besides the design project, research into Ornamentum (ornamentation and decoration) has been done as part of the graduation. This has resulted in a categorization and a thesis as uploaded in this repository. ========== Unless otherwise indicated, all materials on these pages are copyrighted by Friso Gouwetor. All right reserved. No part of these pages, either text or image may be used for any purpose other than personal use. Therefore, reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, for reasons other than personal use, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission. If you want more detailed information please feel free to contact me. Contact: frisog@gmail.com / www.gouwetor.nl