Slow Ablution
Columbia GSAPP Spring 2022, Critic: Ziad Jamaleddine
Collaboration with Karen Tong Wang
Site: Islamberg, New York
Columbia GSAPP Spring 2022, Critic: Ziad Jamaleddine
Collaboration with Karen Tong Wang
Site: Islamberg, New York
Slow Ablution is the interface of water; it encompasses altered landscapes and built structures that direct, collect, and filter rainwater, run-off water and melted snow in the winter. The interface proposes a bridge-over-wetland typology and reintroduces water flows not as problems, but as opportunities to foster new relationships between watershed, rural community, and the city.
︎︎︎ Waqf Document:
‘Islamic Architecture’ and the Waqf (Charitable endowment):
A general feature of Islamic social history, the Waqf produced and financially supported varied architectural typologies serving society’s poor and needy. These buildings and structures included waterworks, soup kitchens, schools, hostels, and hospices.
For the residents currently living in watershed areas, there still are a lot of hardships and sacrifices they face. Even with the financial assistance the city provides, watershed communities are often unseen stewards who hold the responsibility of protecting the city’s water supply.
The rural provides, the city receives.
︎︎︎Site plan of interventions in Islamberg
︎︎︎Site Ecology
Slow Phasing
︎︎︎Plan and Axon view, Mosque
︎︎︎Plan Axon view and Section, Nursery
Ablution Bridge
Cannosville Reservoir Prayer Bridge