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Architects Julian Palapa Location Cibubur, Indonesia Design Team Nurul Andini (Architect Embassy) Design Principal Julian Palapa and Bayu Rismabuana (as Associates Designer) Project Team Eri Eko, Arief Hakim, Aris Fanany, Arief Adiharsa, Indrajati Project Manager Wira Farrel Area 180.0 m2 Project Year 2011 Photographs Ardha Dian Rizki, Julian Palapa Text description provided by the architects. In the beginning, this mosque was a simple aspiration from the surrounding residence to celebrate Ramadhan 2011. They work together according to their own ability to donate for the mosque that will be used in Ramadhan 2011, it can be said that the social aspect in this architecture piece is so bold. Small doesn’t mean it unattractive, small doesn’t mean it doesn’t have “architectural statement” the low budget doesn’t limit the architectural intervention to be shown, even though there is a probability to reduce the entire architectural statement. There are many architects were inspired to play with lights, so when we thought about tropical simplicity shelter architecture architects are presented with several tools to play, we have shade and ray. According to this, we decide to move based on with shadow and ray, with contemporary statement, and creating a new language of architecture through it. Therefore, several fracture and folding used in this design often looks like giving space to each other, in order for liberating the shadow to communicate as the architectural language and creating his own story. Even if this mosque has a modern look, it took the basic silhouette from Datum mosque, mass horizontalism (plus dome sometimes) and minaret, which sometimes used as the easiest visual language to be recognized as the typological language. Some contemporary architectural language inserted here for instance are to make slits in the wall. The building was made slightly porous with random dots on the walls and ceilings, presenting an avenue for the light and shadow to speak.

Architects Julian Palapa Location Cibubur, Indonesia Design Team Nurul Andini (Architect Embassy) Design Principal Julian Palapa and Bayu Rismabuana (as Associates Designer) Project Team Eri Eko, Arief Hakim, Aris Fanany, Arief Adiharsa, Indrajati Project Manager Wira Farrel Area 180.0 m2 Project Year 2011 Photographs Ardha Dian Rizki, Julian Palapa Text description provided by the architects. In the beginning, this mosque wa...