The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
Mosul Mosque Complex
Date 2021
Location Mosul, Iraq
Type Competition
Program Mosque Complex
Project team Santiago Miret and Melisa Brieva
Collaborators Cynthia Solipaca, Malena Masó and Florencia Feldsberg
The project organizes a series of buildings and singular objects on a continuous matrix mantle based on the modular structure of the existing mosque and the new buildings to the west of the complex. The project integrates the mosque's Prayer Hall, the Summer Prayer Hall that organizes a grid of electronic umbrellas, a new tomb for Al Nouri, a new minaret, and two new buildings that house the complex's institutional programs.
The integration proposed in the project is carried out fundamentally with an organizational matrix that modulates the entire complex. But, in addition, there is a material and ornamental integration that unites the whole. This integration is fundamentally based on the use of existing materials in the area, the reuse of ornamentation recovered from the original complex, respect for the existing structural and structuring form in the complex, and the reconstruction and improvement of what we call singular architectural objects. (like the new minaret, or the tomb of Al Nouri).
The proposal, while preserving the historical remains of the complex as symbolic landmarks, seeks to perfect them without falling into fashion assumptions or trends devoid of content and seeks the incorporation of contemporary techniques and technologies in order to enhance the latent capabilities pre-existing in the Al Nouri complex in Mosul.
