London and Mexico city-based Aidia Studio has proposed a mosque for Preston, England, that is designed to be a "quintessential archetype of Islamic Architecture".
If built the New Preston Mosque would be located on the northern outskirts of Preston at the top of a small hill.
The mosque is located at the northern edge of the city of Preston
Its elevated position aims to create a symbolic journey of ascension to the religious building from the surrounding area.
"Our approach places the mosque at the highest point on the site, in doing so, apart from cultivating the symbolic gesture of the ascendance, we are able to define a journey which starts in the landscape," Aidia Studio co-founder Rolando Rodriguez-Leal told Dezeen. Aidia Studio designed the mosque within three cascading rows of lancet arches
The studio designed the mosque and its surrounding site on a grid that aligns the structure and its internal architectural elements with landscaped areas and a car park.
It was designed around a repeated block system that used a collection of cascading lancet arches ? an arch with a pointed tip, used across Islamic architecture ? to create its form.
A rear row of 4.7-metre-wide arches stretches across the rear of the building while shorter, half-width arches are positioned at the front of the building.
If built, the New Preston Mosque's arches would be constructed using reinforced ground natural stone or cast in glass fibre reinforced concrete.
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