Wie näht man eine Moschee? - Kultur & Politik - derStandard.at › Kultur. Wojciech Czaja traf sie zum Gespräch. Sie näht Moscheen und forscht auf dem Gebiet religiösen Bauens. Azra Aksamija, 36-jährige Professorin am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit dem religiösen Raum von Gebetshäusern. In ihrer Dissertation Our Mosques are Us: Rewriting the National History of Bosnia-Herzegovina through Religious Architecture untersucht sie, wie sich die Wahrnehmung und Bedeutung von Moscheen in ihrer Heimat durch den Krieg 1992 bis 1995 verändert hat.
Die Zerstörung der Gebetshäuser, so lautet ihre These, sei ein integraler Bestandteil des Genozids und der ethnischen Säuberung gewesen. Standard: 2006 haben Sie eine sogenannte Dirndlmoschee genäht. Aksamija: Das ist ein traditionelles österreichisches Dirndlkleid, dessen Kittel sich in einen Gebetsteppich für drei Personen entfalten und aufklappen lässt.
Standard: Wie waren die Reaktionen der Leute? Aksamija: Sehr gut. Standard: Was sind die Grundelemente einer Moschee? Chapel at Rio Roca Ranch / Maurice Jennings + Walter Jennings Architects. Architect of Record: Maurice Jennings + Walter Jennings ArchitectsProject Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas, USAProject Team: Maurice Jennings, Walter Jennings, Lori Yazwinski Santa-Rita, David PulliumConsultants: HP Engineering (MEP), Myers-Beatty Engineering (Structural)Project Area: 1,080 square feetProject Year: 2010Photographs: Walter Jennings Owner/Client: Rio Roca RanchLandscape Architect: Dan SauerweinGeneral Contractor: English Heritage Homes (Michael Taylor Supervisor)Products: Lock-Deck Laminated Decking, Pine lumber, Lueders limestone The Rio Roca Chapel is a carefully articulated wooden structure which is coupled with opulent textures and set against an awe-inspiring landscape.
Its lightweight wood structure is braced elegantly with tension bars and turnbuckles, providing support for the walls and copper roof. The chapel’s configuration is essentially an intricate weaving of steel and wood flitch systems with tongue and groove decking above. AD Classics: Riola Parish Church / Alvar Aalto. Designed by Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, Riola Parrish Church is a stunning concrete form which mimics and modulates with the contours of its Italian landscape. The magnificent baptistery, completed in 1978, is located eight kilometers south of Bologna in the small town of Riola. Aalto’s evocative modernist architecture captures the spirit of this mountain setting; it is a spiritual structure which, inside and out, unassumingly expresses sanctity of faith and place. More on Riola Parish Church after the break. The interior chapel’s play on light is especially divine; the northern light is diffused through vertical, asymmetrical ribs, which create a majestic grid of soft light which projects down onto the worshipper.
The intensified light around the alter is intended to create a close relationship between the functioning spaces of the alter, choir and organ, and the baptistery.