Room for prayer

The small temple points to the sky in it's section, without showing it. The finishing of the interior, together with the transparent facade in the top, will show a remarkable diffusion of light. Threw different colours of

glazing towards the east, south and west, the experience of the interior is different for each daytime. Creating a different atmosphere for morning- afternoon en late afternoon prayer.

The inner walls of the temple are clad with different thick nesses of a bright natural stone. In which reflective elements have been placed, that allow for reflection. The temple is entered threw two massive wooden doors at the end of a slope. On both sides of the entrance is a cavity for visitors to be seated, when the room is already fully in use. At the entrance there's a small fountain where the quests can wash and reach the room for prayer clean and pure.

Design:        Ramon Knoester

Location:     Dordrecht, the Netherlands

Program:      Room for prayer

M2:             14m2

Period:        2007