Éav&t – pfe 2021 : Architecture & Experience
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Mariam Bedraoui Drissi : Mosque
  • Slideshow
  • Mosaic
Existing site
Implantation
Qibla direction
Mass plan
Axonometry
Axonometry
Axonometry
Axonometry
Territorial section
Number 5: symbolic value in Islam
Proportions linked to rug dimension : 1.2m x 0.8cm
Prayer room - 5 Daily prayers
Olive garden + Prayer room - Friday prayer
All - Aïd and Ramadan prayers
Atlas of plans
Longitudinal section
Regulating lines
Continuity of gardens
Site
Hill cut
Cavities
Qibla wall
Prayer rugs frame
Olive garden
Prayer room
Library
Canteen
Porch
Prayer rugs
Stone pillar
Wood post
Primary wood beams
Secondary wood beams
Structure composition - Reciprocal frame
Skylights
Circulations
Water channels - trees irrigation
Facades
Perspective section
Moucharabieh facade
5 Ornaments
Olive garden
Open air prayer
Ablutions in the hill
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According to John Cage, “an experimental action” is one “the outcome of which is not foreseen.” Titling this course Architecture & Experience celebrates on the one hand its attachment to the question of high architecture as a discipline forged in historical and theoretical projects and, on the other, the experimental nature of an explorative approach that has been an operative concept of said discipline ever since the Renaissance – explorative, but still grounded in concrete reality.

Theory, by identifying the working principles defining architectonic forms along time, makes possible every kind of parallel while transforming every sort of question into potential architectural problematics. This is our main field of exploration.

Theory allows us to write the narrative that defines the rules of the project on the one hand and give it a mean on the other hand. Reason helps us to imagine narratives that, considering the rules of nature and reality, allow us to justify from a rational point of view disposals that would be irrational in a different conceptual context. Thus we can succeed in building dreams from the ordinary condition.

Athens is a condensator of the most glorious Antique European architecture and of the almost non planned urban forms of today that makes of it a laboratory for exploring the contemporary status of architecture and city. As usual, students have not traveled to Athens, to work more from the imaginary of the city than from its reality.