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The roof curvature is recalled along the gypsum board cladding of the steel columns. Each column pair displays an individual geometry.
Five times per day the three illuminated loudspeaker modules rise all the way to the minaret top in order to announce the call to prayer.
In Bangladesh’s Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, residents must be prepared for floods. Khudi Baris provide them with an affordable, moveable shelter.
The partly preserved apse of the chapel once had valuable wall paintings dating from the 12th century. Today they can be viewed in Jaca Diocesan Museum.
The 39 m tall minaret, a tensegrity structure, hovers above the ground by 2.30 m. It is suspended from the surrounding perimeter wall, circular in plan, by three steel cables.
The roof surface covering 62 × 89 m is oriented to the cardinal directions. The field containing 5488 skylights covers the prayer hall and is rotated by 17°, precisely facing Mecca.
New addition to the Vitra Campus: Marina Tabassum’s Khudi Bari, a sustainable modular “small house” in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
The partly preserved apse of the chapel once had valuable wall paintings dating from the 12th century. Today they can be viewed in Jaca Diocesan Museum.