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This is Architect Shabab Raihan Kabir a fellow member of IAB. I am a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture from BUET. I have presented my research paper in Malaysia and Kuwait during the 2nd ICMA and 3rd ICMA.

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The Morphological Metrics of Spatial Volumetric Comfort in Designing a Mosque Indoor Environment

Personal Biography

Shabab Raihan Kabir is a fellow architect of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh. He acknowledged his Architectural education at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and began his professional career in the Department of Architecture under the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, Government of Bangladesh in 2001. Since that instant his nationwide practice integrated court buildings, circuit houses, public housing, hospitals, medical colleges, nursing colleges, and sports complexes in addition to buildings for especially able people and buildings for orphan children. He has been awarded for his works including the AhsanurRahman Gold Medal from BUET for research work at M. Arch about the Ecosystem Approach towards Qualitative Assessment of Urban Open Space in Ramna. He has written two textbooks that include Basic Design 1 and 2 and more than 60 articles on built environment and urbanism, published in different electronics and print media and journals. He has a special interest in painting, photography and sculpture. He has organized some exhibitions of his artworks.

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Mosques are a hearty part of each Islamic society and are predominantly where spiritual and social acquaintances between Muslims are conveyed and established. The urban mosque is a properly new concept. It is described as a new form of institution that presents a certain image of urban design, spatial diversity, and the practice of communal space. And as such the volumetric comfort in indoor areas of a mosque is one of the crucial desires of individuals that are subjective by architectural geometry. Indoor hall geometry governs the mosque's categorical and morphological expression. The spatial volumetric shapes of indoor spaces affect congregations' comfort and spirituality in every aspect. The buildings must meet the provision of human comfort in indoor environments, which refers to a sense of physical, perceptual, and psychological relief, often described as the lack of need. In addition, the performance of the indoor environment is governed by its four aspects: thermal comfort, acoustic comfort, visual comfort, and indoor air quality. This study wants to discover a new integrative context to quantitatively define numerous mosque typo-morphologies that emotive the comfort of believers, including spaciousness and consciousness to obtain indoor prayer space typo-morphological configurations. The results of this investigation have provided many insights into the morphological evolution of the mosque and how it can be further improved to address modern challenges. Mosque shape, arrangement, and morphology influence human comfort and experience which demonstrate the flexibility of mosques in serving the community such as social, economic, and even political. Keywords: mosque morphology; volumetric comfort; geometry; thermal comfort; acoustic comfort; visual comfort; indoor air quality.

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The Morphological Metrics of Spatial Volumetric Comfort in Designing a Mosque Indoor Environment

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https://icmamosques.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Shabab_ICMA4_full_paper.pdf

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