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The Grand Mosque
[architecture]
[Renzo Piano] Ecological Piano – Livio Sacchi
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[Arup Associates] Holistic engineering – Anna Baldini
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[Zaha Hadid] Artificial landscape – Valerio Paolo Mosco
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[BmasC] Recycling modernism – Graziella Trovato Moya
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[LANDS] Material and nature – Luca Guido
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[BIG] Garden homes – Matteo Belfiore
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Urban planning against greenhouse effects – Massimo Locci
Abu Dhabi
Material Finesse – Maria Ludovica Tramontin e Vittorio Tramontin
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Marbles and Mosaics by Fantini Mosaici
Charming spaces – Antonella Greco
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“Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque”
Picture by Fantini Mosaici
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the grand mosque
The Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al
Nahyan Mosque is a symbol for United
Arab Emirates. The Mosque is the
third biggest Mosque in the world in
terms of praying areas allowing about
30,000 worshippers of which 9,000
will be in air-conditioned areas.
The Mosque has been built on a raised
embankment at the gateway to the island
of Abu Dhabi. The structural work of
the Mosque started in 1996 and was
completed in 2002. The realization of
the finishing works started at January
2004, further along the external marble
works and the finishing in the ablutions and in the back of the house.
The architectural design of the Mosque
as a landmark building focused on
the factors that would make a lasting impression on the worshipper. For
example: the dimensions of the central Prayer Hall are 50x55 m on plan
with 33 m clear height to the ceiling.
The only “intrusion” into this vast space
is the towering arched structure supporting the base of the main dome 45 m
above the floor. In situ reinforced concrete technology was adopted in order
to minimize future maintenance works
and to facilitate installation of elaborate
finishes and decorations. Long clear
spans and heavy load conditions called
for concrete sections of considerable
depth, with beams up to 2,5 m deep, are
a common feature of the structure. The
main ring beam supporting the central
dome is 5 m deep and its cross sectional
area amounts to 18 square metres.
Eighty-two domes and four minarets
compose the Mosque; the minarets are 115 m tall and the top of the
high main dome, the central one, is
85 m, making it the biggest dome in
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the world. Two 75 m high dome are
on either side of the main one.
The main Prayer Hall, along with the
smaller Prayer Halls and the arcade, is
built on an eight metres pedestal, and
has sparkling crystal chandeliers that
illuminate the intricately carved ceiling
domes; the central chandelier, adorned
by hundreds of Swarovski crystals
and hand made in Germany, is one of
the largest chandeliers in the world.
Its walls are clad with textured white
Italian marble and, on the Quibla wall,
the 99 Names of God have been written by cutting the marble by water jet
and lit by luminous back lighting.
The Hall’s columns are made of seamless circular white marble, named
“Sivac”, uniquely inlaid with exquisite floral patterns of semi-precious
stones and mother of pearl.
The 5,700 square metres carpet covering
the Main Prayer Hall has been completely hand woven by two thousand Iranian
(Persian) artisans, weights 45 tons and
is to be the largest carpet in the world.
The external walls of the Main Prayer
Hall were decorated with fifty-three
panels of Iznik traditional ceramic
tiles from Turkey, an art work dating
back 100 years. Koranic verses have
been written in calligraphic styles on
the domes and over the Iznik tiles.
There are three public entrances to the
Mosque and one exclusive to VIP guests.
The main entrance reveals text from the
Holy Koran, as well as designs carved
into the white marble of the arches leading to the Sahan (outdoor prayer area).
For all external and internal areas,
the cladding and the flooring have
been covered by marble. The white
marble, used for the outside, is the
Greek one named “Sivec” with extra
select quality, the white marble, used
for the inside, is of two types: “Lasa”
and “Aquabianca” marbles, both from
Italy for wall and floor cladding.
All marble cladding on the domes
and walls has been installed onto
a developed steel structure system in order to modify the original
shape of the concrete structure. For the ablutions areas and for the
floor of the back of house offices, the
marble used is “Makrana”, an Indian
one used to build the Taj Mahal.
The 17.400 square metres white
marble floor of the Sahan is inlaid with multi-colored marble reflecting rich floral designs.
The arcades surrounding it comprise a
series of arches supported by more than
1,000 columns, clad with white marble
and inlaid with semi-precious stones
depicting a floral design crowned by
palm tree motifs hand made by Indian
artisans. These arcades are covered
with 34 domes internally lined with
colourful engraved GRG as well as calligraphy from the Holy Koran and are
externally clad with Macedonian white
marble topped by marble merlons.
The internal of all domes are made
with glass-reinforced gypsum. The
architectural concepts were developed by Moroccan artisans on site into
a mould to actual scale, afterwards
used as a mould for fabrication and
mass production of the domes.
The area around the Mosque is to
be landscaped with water features,
like several pools so reflecting the
arcades in water, and parks.
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The Grand Mosche
Client
Department of Municipalities and Agriculture
- Abu Dhabi Municipality
Project Manager
Hill International Inc
Project Consultants:
Internal
Spatium and two Moroccan companies
External
Halcrow International Partnership
MEP
Hyder consulting
Lighting
Speirs and Major
Management Contractor
ACC - Six Construct (Joint venture)
General Data
Site area: 500,000 sqm
Mosque foot print area: 22,500 sqm
Number of worshippers: ± 30,000
Number of minarets: 4
Number of domes: 82
Main Prayer Hall carpet area: 5,500 sqm (largest single carpet in the world, weight 47 tons, 2.268,000 knots within)
Biggest Dome: height: 85 m; diameter 32
m (largest dome in the world)
Total number of Chandeliers: 7. The largest chandelier has a 10
m diameter and 15 m height (including the largest in the world)
Minaret height: 115m
External marble works: ±100,000 sqm
Internal marble works: ± 20,000 sqm
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