Gasalhana – Chapel in Bistrica

The encounter of vernacular and Islamic architecture in the Dinaric regions of northern Montenegro is specific for the exceptional reduction of the influence of oriental architecture. Here, the Dinaric House is adapted to the function of sacral buildings, so that the spirit of folk architecture has achieved continuity. It was this fact that served as the inspiration for the design of the building, a new chapel near the existing mosque, in the village of Bistrica near Bijelo Polje. The principle of transposition was applied in order to create an architecture of continuity with clear determinants of the present tense.