Study and Meditation Center on Massachusetts Avenue
Semester Spring 2018
Professor Ann Cederna Site Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. Program Library + Meditation + Dwelling Duration 14 weeks The design proposal is for 12 scholars that are to come, live, study and pray on the mosque's campus. During our site visit, we added a master planning component to our program after learning that the mosque needs to be able to accommodate 2,000+ people on Fridays for prayer. The architecture of the scholar retreat is meant to respond to the mosque, Rock Creek Park, and the influx of mosque goers.
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I designed a series of spaces intended to mentally and physically prepare you for either study, meditation, prayer, and sleep. To do that, I created a series of collages that expressed the design objective, materials, and architecture that each space would need. From these collages, I then produced orthographic representations.
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