In West Raichota, a remote coastal area in Bangladesh about 40 km south of Chittagong, 3 Points Consultant presents the recent mosque design, an essential element of collective life for the local community after the course of several floods severely damaged the previous construction. The new mosque was designed on a raised platform with a front plaza, used as an additional prayer space and for the social activity to escape the risk.
A coastal mosque opens up to nature and its community
In Bangladesh, 3 Points Consultant designs a new religious place, characterized by a permeable envelope that links spirituality to the local community.
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
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Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
Foto Maruf Raihan / Corpovisuals
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- Romina Totaro
- 20 January 2022
- West Raichota, Chittagong, Bangladesh
- 3 Points Consultant
- 618 mq
- moschea
- 2021
Surrounded also by a cemetery area and a guest house with an elementary school, the architecture – characterized in plan by an elementary square shape – opens with its permeable fronts to the outside. In fact, the main hall on the ground floor is open and transparent to provide natural light and cross ventilation. Here, the external family cemetery and the interior prayer room create a spiritual connection line.
On the other hand, the upper floor facade filters light with square panels, in which pattern is created with the continuous flipping of custom-made R.C.C. blocks. A single block is designed with five arms around a pentagon with five more holes, a sacred number in Islamic culture.
Connected to the main building, a slimmer volume – proportionally twice as tall as the mosque – and completely opaque, organizes all functional spaces within it, including the ritual area of spiritual purification.
- Shaer Mohammad Para Jame Mosque
- 3 Points Consultant
- Tapon Kanti Sarker
- Tanveer Hasan
- Mithu Hossain
- Mohammad Kowsur Hasan
- M A Sabur
- West Raichota, 3 no Khankhanabad, Banshkhali, Chittagong, Bangladesh
- 618 sqm
- 2021
Site plan
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
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