Al Aziz Mosque

Part of Arabic Emirate's architectural distinctive buildings are a large number of newly constructed magnificent mosques such as for example the Al Aziz Mosque which has been opened in 2015. 

Architect of this project is the APG Architecture and Planning Group who is responsible for many prominent projects in UAE and in the arabic world. With this new mosque, APG has introduced innovative and new ideas and concepts with the use of light transmitting concrete technology for the construction of unique and distinguished facades comprising a total area of 5100 square meters distributed over 3 floor levels accommodating a total of 2270 worshipers.

Every single element is in all respects individual as it comprises a different shape and construction making the whole concept a unique one worldwide. Especially during evening and night time, when the walls become backlit, the glowing calligraphy becomes a highlight in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Every panel of the facade is unique with Arabic projecting letters of the different calligraphy. The panels form during the day hours a stunning optic with a state of art design incorporating the shadows of the calligraphy created by the sun light. The whole facade comprises the 99 different names of God with strict instruction of the Koran.

During the day the escalation in the facade art start at dawn of each evening when the light transmitting facade starts its light show after the activation of the LED lights installed behind the backside of the facade panels. The light transmitting fiber optics transmit the lights of the LED lights to the external surface of the protruding letters.

Depending from sunlight angle, the LUCEM façade appears in different colors. During daytime with no direct sun of the façade it appears in a warm sand color, during sunset with intense direct sunlight on the façade in 90 degree angle on the surface in a strong color of soil, after sunset respective during twilight in the morning or evening it appears sand-grey to grey. In night time with the darkest ambient light, it appears – as an impressive natural occurance in architecture – widely shining and glowing in a soft warm white color like the moon and the stars, the Arabic calligraphy. For this project 16 undercut anchors were used to fix each panel to a channel based substructure system fixed to the concrete structure of the mosque by means of chemical and mechanical anchorage system.

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