Honourable Mention Winner in Architecture Masterprize

Bait Ur Raiyaan Mosque by Cubeinside has won the Honourable Mention Award in Architecture MasterPrize 2024 in the Other Architecture category.

Bait-Ur-Raiyan is a small scale mosque quietly sitting on a typical rural Bangladesh site near the mighty Padma River. This particular design is an exercise of abstract interpretation of basic Symbolism of Islamic Architecture. Geometry has been the principal tool for this abstraction in terms of transforming both the form and spatial quality. A human centric approach has been adopted to create a space for community keeping the scale sacred yet intimate, using the local materials like red brick, while lights played the most vital role to uplift the spiritual entity of the mosque.

In this particular mosque, the project brief had the firm requirements of having the traditional symbolic elements of a mosque like the dome, minarets and arch. This imposed criteria was taken as rather an opportunity by the designers to exercise the abstraction of the traditional symbols in mosque architecture. Hence the concept of “Abstract Semiotics” was adopted for the design of Bait Ur Raiyan mosque. This principle was applied in measurable mass and space, and other immeasurable aspects with a deeper perceptual level.