Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

183 Cultural, Educational and Sacral Buildings

Beginning in 2005, this mosque, which has
two circular rooms of 9 m diameter, each
covered by domes, has been under con-
struction in the Hessian town of Wabern. It
will be the first mosque to be built display-
ing domes and vaults of unbaked mud
(green) bricks and covered by a green roof,
i.e. a roof of earth and living grass. The large
domes are built of special acoustic green
bricks with rounded edges, as described in
chapter 6, p. 68. The cross sections of the
domes are optimised so that no ring forces
will occur within the dome, and so that
its structurally necessary thickness is only
30 cm.

Mosque, Wabern, Germany

Architect: Gernot Minke, Kassel, Germany
Under construction, anticipated completion:
2006
Area: 273 m^2