Undesignated Academic Mosque Response Toward COVID--19 Pandemic

¹ Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia
² School of Electrical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Telkom University, Bandung, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: bangunirh@arsitektur.undip.ac.id

Abstract

Mosque is a unique building by the function as muslim prayer room. Indonesia as the world biggest muslim country has mandated each building to provide prayer room especially mosque by issuance of Ministry of Public Work- Housing Settlement decree no.14/2017. Academic building like cam-puss also mandated to have the campus mosque to facilitate the Muslim’s civitas academia performing their prayer. However, the campus buildings commonly were not designed with mosque facility in purpose. Thus, campus designer performed remodelling their building to meet this demand. During the pandemic COVID--19 in Indonesia, some of undesignated academic mosques in Architecture Undip were responded it with various adaptation. This study purposed to investigate the responses of those mosque and try to figure the scheme of adaptation phase using descriptive analysis. The result of this study found that the places were follow the government advices and brought alone prayer into common practice.