Mosque layout design : An analytical study of mosque layouts in the early Ottoman period
تاريخ الاضافة
02/11/2020
نوع المحتوى
Book
Category
Architecture
الرابط للمحتوى
Subject Area
Architecture
الكاتب
Faris Ali Mustafa and Ahmad Sanusi Hassan
الناشر
Faris Ali Mustafa and Ahmad Sanusi Hassan
Year of Publication
2013
الوصف
This study attempts to quantify the influence of spatial configuration on the functional
efficiency ofmosquelayoutsintheearlyOttomanperiod.Theliteraturereviewconsistsof
two parts .The first partisatheoreticalstudyoftherelationshipbetweenspatialconfiguration
and functional efficiency of mosque layouts . This part high lights the key syntactical character-
istics and effect of spatial configuration on the level of functional efficiency using space syntax
theory.Thesecondpartisananalyticalcomparativedescriptionofthechangesandtransfor-
mations in the configurations of mosque layouts .The architectural styles are classified into six
types basedonlayoutdesigns.Themainbenchmarksandindicatorsinvolvedinmeasuringthe
functional efficiency ofmosquelayoutsareanalyzedusingtheA-graph2009softwareprogram,
which providesnumericalresults.Thisanalysiscomparesentiresamplesofmosquelayout
designs foreachcategory.Thenumericalresultsindicatetheeffectofspatialconfigurations
and thefunctionsofmosquelayouts.Thisstudyshowsthatmosqueswithcourtyardlayoutsare
accessible, efficient, and flexible in terms off unction because of their distinct syntactical and
morphological spatial structures