'Architectural Design'

It covers many scopes that go beyond of human thoughts...how a building can stand steadily on the ground, withstand the disaster of mother nature itself, and create a shelter for human to live safely from the danger outside. Buildings means a lot to the community. It functions according to the human activities, and has it own style of design. People can go in and out of the building systematically by the concept of form, space and order. It's like the building communicate with the people inside for instance. And now, i would like to share one of research about the building that contains aesthetic value and contribute a lot to the architectural art of design throughout the global....which is :


MASJID DIAN AL MAHRI, DEPOK, JAKARTA, INDONESIA



The latest mosque with gold doom is the Masjid Dian Al Mahri, which is situated at Depok, Jawa Barat. This mosque was started built on the year of 1999 and complete on April, 2006. This mosque is own by Hj Dian Djuriah Al Rasyid, merchant from Banten. This mosque started build on 2001 and completed around the year of 2006. The mosque is open to the public on the 31st December 2006. The land area is 50 hectar which occupied the area of the mosque of 60m x 120m(8000 metre square). The space inside the mosque could fit around 20 000 muslims for praying. This mosque was told to be one of the tremendous mosque was built in the east country.

Dian Al Mahri Mosque has 5 dooms; 1 is the main doom, and 4 is the small dooms. What makes it unique is the material use for the doom, gold, with the thickness of 2 to 3 mm together with the mozaic crystal. The shape of the doom resemble the doom of Taj Mahal.

There is a chandelier import from italy with 8 tone weight install in the hall of the mosque. Besides, the craftmanship of the imam place is made from 18K gold.Different design and texture also has been made to the other component of the mosque such as the floors, ceiling, wall and many more. Basically, the art of this mosque architecture is duplicated from the mosque architecture at the middle east by the characteristic of dooms, minarets, interior and exterior, detailation, geomatric elements, and obelisk. Those factors strengthen the art of islamic in terms of mosque architecture. 6 minarets is in hexagonal shape, which symbolized the 'Faith', are constructed to 40 height. Those minarets covered with granite stone which also imported from Italy. The top of the doom(minarets) is covered with mozaic and 24K gold



*this is picture of
the chandelier


*the minarets

Here is the example of the video that I download from youtube which tell about the stories lately about the Dian Al Mahri mosque...