The paper attempts to explore the future of Mosque Architecture with the implementation of sustainable technologies and meeting the highest energy-efficiency for best-in-class building typologies. These technologies will allow mosques in Singapore to leap forward by addressing the threats of climate-change and how mosques can also contribute to the whole nation-wide effort towards creating Net-Zero Energy and Super-Low Energy buildings.
Research paper Title
Faithful Footprints: Exploring Sustainable Solutions in charting the next phase of Singapore’s Mosque Development
Personal Biography
Having graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2011 with the Master in Architecture, my passion to contribute back to society is realised when I joined Warees Investments Pte Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis). Drawing through best practices in the early days of mosque architecture in modern Singapore since the 1970s, my role in Warees is to facilitate design thinking and execute the construction of the next generation of mosques.
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