Easton Jamia Masjid
United Kingdom
COMPLETED 2019
A mosque asks two opposite things of its lighting. Inside, a large carpeted hall has to be lit flatly and evenly for reading, for standing shoulder to shoulder in rows, and for prostration — which means a worshipper spends part of every prayer looking directly up at the ceiling, and a glaring aperture is not a minor comfort issue. Outside, on a terraced residential street in Bristol, the building has to identify itself after dark without lighting up the houses opposite. The scheme runs white inside and green outside, and the green is a single colour system carried from the dome down to the pavement.
Main Prayer Hall
A Ceiling People Look Directly At
The hall is wide, low and carpeted, with the rows running the full width, and the requirement is an even field rather than a composition — nobody should be praying in a brighter or dimmer patch than the person beside them. RL-PNL2661 at 595 × 595 does most of that, laid into the existing tile grid at a 120° beam, which is the right distribution for a flat wash across a large plan and, more to the point, a large low-luminance emitting surface rather than a small bright aperture. That matters here more than in most buildings: during prostration and on standing a worshipper's eyeline passes across the ceiling repeatedly, and a diffused panel is far kinder to that than a point source. RL-PNL2762 at 1195 × 295 picks up the narrower bays and the perimeter runs where a square module will not fit. Around the central rooflight, RL-ST360 outlines the opening in green — an IP67 silicone neon section on 24V, the same colour system used across the whole exterior, so the one architectural gesture inside the hall reads as deliberately connected to the dome above it rather than as a decorative afterthought.
Exterior & Dome
Green, on a Residential Street
The exterior is the part that has to work as a signal. The dome and the minaret carry RL-FD-MESH, an RGB pixel system on 12, 24 or 36V with 65,536-step greyscale and break-point resume, which is the right product for a doubly curved surface — a rigid fitting cannot follow a dome, and a pixel mesh can be set out behind or across the perforated cladding and driven as one addressable surface. Break-point resume matters more than it sounds on a building like this: a single failed node on a dome does not take the run below it out with it. RL-ST360 forms the vertical light slots in the fretwork box below, IP67 silicone on 24V, the same product and the same green used around the rooflight inside. RL-IG1818 lights the lower stone at ground level — a 10W inground with 15°, 24° or 30° optics, ordered in green rather than filtered to it, which is the difference between a clean saturated colour and a dim muddy one. RL-FL5223 handles the warm layer on the entrance block and the rubble stone, white at 3000K, because a building lit entirely in one colour reads as a light installation rather than as a building. The street lighting is the council's.
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