Suha Faisal Valiyaveettil, an Architecture and Environmental Design BSc Honours student, has had her design of a mosque featured in Dezeen magazine’s roundup of student architectural projects presented on their School Shows platform.
Dezeen’s School Shows is a digital showcase of architecture and design student work, including virtual graduate shows, degree shows and end-of-year school projects.
Suha’s work, titled The Water Healing Mosque of Royal Docklands, has been featured in a roundup of student projects from around the world focusing on religious and multi-faith buildings. Her design of the mosque uses the tidal movement of the river to harvest energy, using water both practically in its environmental design and symbolically as a “spiritual purifier”.
Speaking to Dezeen about her project, Suha added: "The project's ambition is to use water as a symbolic, social, and environmental factor to break down social barriers and provide resilient cultural places in the Royal Docklands – an area socially neglected and prone to future flooding.
"The challenge is to combine aesthetic and cultural concerns with environmental ones in order to set the foundations of a circular local economy and embrace the requirements of simplicity and modesty of Islam."
Suha’s project was also nominated for a RIBA Bronze Medal as part of the 2022 President's Medals Student Awards, which are considered to be the most prestigious and long-lasting awards in architectural education in the world.
Read the full article on Dezeen’s website.
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