Lighting Analysis in Mosque Architecture in Malaysia

The appropriate design and mixture of daylighting techniques can significantly help in
improving the interior space design. Light plays an important role in famous mosques
around the world but it is ignored in new built mosques of malaysia to make a dynamic
feeling and sense of god’s presence in the religious space. It is proved that natural
daylight design with light hierarchy and harmony has an important role in interior
environment which is beable to make the human to reach the sense of serenity and
concentration. The main aim of this study is to investigate and review the fundamental
aspects of daylighting for evaluating how daylight as a sacred element was used in
implicated mosques. For this reason firstly we analaysed the mosque prayer hall by
collected datas from literature and observation to evaluate the current situation. The
results indicate that the openings for daylight entrance should be designed in a way to
achieve hierarchy, harmony and designed patterns with daylight during the pray time in
the prayer hall. Methods, techniques and designs which have discussed in this paper are
suggested solutions for pupose of enhancing sense of sacred by using natural
daylighting in mosque prayer hall.