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  Project Title

  Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  SHATOTTO architecture for green living

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Ar. Md.Rafiq Azam

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Cultural

• Project Link
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• Project Location
  Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  October, 2018
• Client
  Dhaka South City Corporation
• General Contractor
  Nt Kta-at (joint Venture)


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  SHATOTTO architecture for green living
• Lead Architect(s)
  Ar. Md.Rafiq Azam
• Other Team Members
  Ar. Ibtesa-Moon Adittya, Ar. Ikramoon Nisa, Engr. Mohammad Akter Hossen, Mostafizur Rahman,Engr. Nazrul Islam, Engr. Md. Lutfor Rahman
• About Firm
  Md. Rafiq Azam is one of the internationally acclaimed architects from Bangladesh practicing for the last 30 years and developed a remarkable style of his own. His architecture is a fusion of tradition, nature, and mysticism with significant harmony. Rafiq Azam is a 1989 graduate from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). His practice name is “SHATOTTO architecture for green living” since May 1995. In 2004, Rafiq Azam participated in “Glenn Murcutt Master Class” .

The design philosophy of the project was to create a threshold space between the terrestrial world, the busy road on the north and the celestial world, the graveyard on the south by embedding the traditional typologies with the contemporary typologies. The shaan (communal space) inspired by the 17th century old Mughal Mosque, the flanked Mehrab, the prayer space for women, the glass bridge inspired by the Quran’s Verses all these things are designed such a way to enable the user to travel from the physical plane to the metaphysical realm creating a transcendent bond to divinity.