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MOSQUE OF DJENNE

Columbia GSAPP / ADR / Fall 2023

Instructor: Zachary White

Drawing Process

The mosque of Djenne has been standing for a long time. However, due to constant flooding, replastering is essential to keeping the building standing. And thus, the surrounding community has an annual replastering festival in which everyone participates. Consequently, the building becomes a catalyst for social cohesion, and the layers of time can be seen visually by the organic appearance of the mosque.
To express the accumulation of time and the layers of mud on the building, I expressed the layers of time peeling off from the building and leading to a ununiform appearance of the building.

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Physical Model

1: 200 Model papier mache, acrylic square dowels, lightbulb/ 17inchx 17inch/ 2023

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