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BA-002 · Architecture

Yoncalı Mosque

Stone, Light, Script

Aerial visualisation of the stone-clad prismatic mosque, its slender open-lantern minaret and the flat-roofed ablution canopy.
No.
BA-002
Location
Yoncalı, Uşak
Typology
Mosque
Status
Concept
Imagery
Visualisation

A proposal for a neighbourhood mosque in Yoncalı, Uşak: a plain stone-clad prism with square Kufic script on its walls, a slender freestanding minaret and a colonnaded ablution fountain.

Front elevation with the ablution canopy, an arched timber entrance door and a square Kufic calligraphy panel.
Street-corner view of the stone volume, minaret and adjacent ablution canopy in daylight.

For Yoncalı we propose a modest neighbourhood mosque: a long prism clad in stone. Its plan narrows to a point at the entrance and at the qibla, so the prayer hall runs along a single axis from the door to the qibla wall.

Side elevation with narrow vertical windows and the minaret shaft rising at the corner.

Ornament is worked into the building itself: square Kufic panels on the facade, a coffered ceiling in the same pattern inside, and the name of God in relief on the qibla wall. The centre of the ceiling rises to give the hall height, and tall, narrow windows along both long walls bring in daylight.

Drawings

  • Ground floor plan.

The programme is simple: an entrance hall, the imam's room, a muezzin's area and a women's prayer space set off by a modular wall. The minaret stands apart from the hall as a slender tower ending in an open lantern. The ablution fountain sits in the courtyard under its own flat-roofed colonnade.

Prayer hall interior with a Kufic-patterned coffered ceiling, an 'Allah' relief on the qibla wall and figures at prayer.
The prayer hall and its Kufic-patterned coffered ceiling. Visualisation.

The scheme was developed through a full set of drawings: site plan, floor plan, and long and short sections.

Drawings

  • Short section: ablution canopy, prayer hall and minaret.