Citylife Apartments /

Zaha Hadid Architects

Location: Milan ,Italy

Area: 38000 m2
Year: 2013
Lead Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
Main contractor – The Torri contractor , City
Contractor
ARCHITECT- ZAHA HADID
Background
• Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA was a British-Iraqi architect,
artist and designer, recognized as a major figure in architecture of
the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
• She was born on 31 October 1950 in Baghdad and died on 31
March 2016 in Miami, Florida.
• Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and then
enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in
1972.
• She was described by The Guardian as the "Queen of the curve―,
who "liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new
expressive identity.
• Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize,
in 2004. She received the UK's most prestigious architectural award,
the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011.

Her works

Vitra Fire Station, Phaeno Science Center, Heydar Aliyev Centre, MAXXI: Museum of XXI
Germany Wolfsburg, Germany Azerbaijan Century Arts, Italy
ARCHITECT- ZAHA HADID
Background
• She opened her own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, in
London in 1980.
• During the early 1980s Hadid's style introduced audiences to a new
modern architecture style through her extremely detailed and
professional sketches.
• She then began her career teaching architecture, first at the
Architectural Association, then, over the years at Harvard Graduate
School of Design, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago,
the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, the University of
Illinois at Chicago, and Columbia University.
• Hadid also undertook some high-profile interior work, including the
Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome in London as well as creating
fluid furniture installations within the Georgian surroundings of Home
House private members club in Marylebone, and the Z.CAR
hydrogen-powered, three-wheeled automobile.
• In 2009 she worked with the clothing brand Lacoste to create a new, Hadid's fluid interior of the Silken
high fashion, and advanced boot. Puerta America in Madrid
About Project
 Citylife brings to the urban context a new model for work and leisure, an area to be enjoyed on foot
or by bicycle, with traffic circulating only underground.
 At the centre of the project is the business district — three office towers in the ‘piazza delle tre torri’:
torre Isozaki (il dritto, the straight one), torre Hadid (lo storto, the twisted one) and torre Libeskind (il
curvo, the curved one) — torre Isozaki will be 202 meters high (663 ft) with 50 floors, making it
amongst the tallest in Italy by roof height.
 The skyline of Zaha Hadid’s CityLifeMilano housing complex is defined and characterized by a sinuous
fluid line.
 Residences are comprised of seven curved buildings of varying heights, from 5 to 13 floors.
 Construction of the residential complex began in august 2009, with delivery of the first
apartments scheduled for 2013.
BRIEF INFORMATION-CITY LIFE APARTMENTS
• At the centre of the project is the business district — three
office towers in the ‘piazza delle tre torri’: torre Isozaki (il
dritto, the straight one), torre Hadid (lo storto, the twisted
one) and torre Libeskind (il curvo, the curved one) — torre
Isozaki will be 202 meters high (663 ft) with 50 floors, making it
amongst the tallest in Italy by roof height.
• Torre Hadid will be 170 meters (558 ft) high with 44 floors, and
torre Libeskind will reach a height of 150 meters (492 ft) with
about 30 floors.
• The three towers are able to accommodate ca. 10,000
people, over a total of approximately 130,000 sqm.
• A contemporary art museum, a shopping area with bars and
restaurants, and a pavilion for exhibitions, sports,
entertainment and fashion shows are also part of the
project.
• The skyline of Zaha Hadid’s City Life Milano housing complex
is defined and characterized by a sinuous fluid line.
• Residences are comprised of seven curved buildings of
varying heights, from 5 to 13 floors.
• The distinctive architectural elements include a serpentine
movement of the curved balconies and the profile of the
roofs, which provide a soft and elegant shape for all of the
top-floor penthouses, complete with extensive covered
terraces
BRIEF INFORMATION-CITY LIFE APARTMENTS
• The Residential plot is composed by 7 linear buildings set along a
continuous path around two land areas: Rc1, including buildings
C1- C2-C3 and Rc2 with buildings C4-C5-C6-C7.
• The land areas are divided by a strip of public park.
• The buildings can accommodate up to 230 luxury apartments, with
common facilities.
• The roof outline raises continuously from building to building, starting
from 5-storey C2 building facing Piazza Giulio Cesare it reaches its
maximum height at building C6 13th floor, thus ideally setting a
unified and unique skyline.
• Each dwelling is functionally, planned to maximize efficiency of
space utilization, while maintaining the dramatic charisma of
exploding out of the box.
STRATEGIES & CLIMATE RESPONSIVE

Climate of milan,
Milan has a humid subtropica l climate
Winter in Milan is mild but foggy temperature
ranging Zero to 8 degree Celsius .

Summer can be very humid with brief

thunderstorms , temperature ranging 14 to 20

southeast Great care has been

side is highly given to site and
exposed to buildings orientation,
the afternoon taking into a ccount
sun environmental and
comfort requirements so
that most apartments
face south-east and
at the same time
allocate the best views
from the terra ces,
towards the city

Day arc
PASSIVE STRATEGIES

The external skin of the tower is a system of sun-

deflecting louvers flanked by a double layer of
glazing

volumetric envelope of
the buildings is defined
by a curvilinear
movement of balconies
and terra ces, opening
up into a rich variety of
private spa ces, both
interior and exterior,
echoing the landscape
below. the double-height lobbies are flooded with light
by large openings stretching from floor to ceiling,
designed to confer strong visual continuity with
the park.
the structure of the tower is conceived as a sta ck of
equivalent, economically efficient floor slabs that
incrementally twist about a vertical axis. This
incremental twisting is algorithmically controlled so
that each floor does not have the same angle, but
has a fractional, relational angle to the floors above
and below, further developing the dynamism of the
tower.

The external skin of the tower is a system of sun-

deflecting louvers flanked by a double layer of
glazing, Furthermore, the surface of the glazing has
a series of ventilating registers that draw outside air
through the cavity of the exterior system, thus
providing a highly energy-efficient environment for
the offices behind.
CONCEPTUAL PLAN
PLAN

TOWERS

RESIDENTIAL
BUILDINGS
GROUND PLAN
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN 1. TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT
2. THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT
3 3. FOUR BEDROOM APARTMENT
3 4. TWO BEDROOM ONE-STOREY PENTHOUSE
5. THREE BEDROOM ONE-STOREY PENTHOUSE
1
1
1
1
1
5 1
3 3 1 1
3

4 5
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
SECTION
SECTION
SECTION
ELEVATION
FIVE BEDROOM APARTMENT
FIVE BEDROOM APARTMENT
FOUR BEDROOM APARTMENT
FACADE
The distinctive architectural elements include a serpentine movement of the curved balconies and the profile of
the roofs, which provide a soft and elegant shape for all of the top-floor penthouses, complete with extensive
covered terraces.
The façades design involves continuity and fluidity. Ribbon-like balconies with glazed inserts wrap around the
walls, while windows feature a variety of shapes.

The volumetric envelope of the buildings is defined by a curvilinear movement of balconies and terraces,
opening up into a rich variety of private spaces, both interior and exterior, echoing the landscape below.
Fiber concrete panels and natural wood panels –
● Emphasize the complex’s volumetric movement
● Give a private and domestic quality to the interior of the residential courtyard.

The interiors open onto extensive terraces.

The bright white facades were created using Wooden panelling covers some of the walls,
fibre concrete panels. sections and balconies, breaking up the
massing and offering some warmth and texture.
 FACADE MATERIALS

FACADE MODULES AGGREGATION DIAGRAM

CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

● CityLife Residential complex designed by Zaha Hadid consists of seven buildings, with a total gross floor area of
38,000 square meters / 409,000 square feet divided into 230 apartments, together with a 50,000-square-meter
underground car park

● The buildings can accommodate up to 230 luxury apartments, with common facilities. The skyline of the
residential complex is defined and characterized by a sinuous fluid line. The roof outline raises continuously from
building to building, starting from 5-storey C2 building facing Piazza Giulio Cesare it reaches its maximum height
at building C6 13th floor, thus ideally setting a unified and unique skyline.
under construction image of site , where we can clearly observe the rcc frame construction.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN :
red parts indicate columns and blue
parts indicate cores , these are the
main load carrying members of the
building.

core has shear walls ;for accessibility

and convenience core is divided in two
parts.

column

core

columns are so planned that mostly

they are flushed with walls ; but the
areas where columns are seen
distinctively , circular columns are
used.
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN :

typical floor plan indicating the

structural grid which is continued on
higher stories.

column

core
interior images showing circular columns
MATERIALS

 Facade materials – fiber concrete panels and natural wood panels –

emphasize the complex’s volumetric movement and at the same time
give a private and domestic quality to the interior of the residential
courtyard.
 They use aluminium and glass
 Also they use timber.

Fiber concrete panel

Facade Aluminium and glass Natural wood panel

LANDSCAPE

At ground level, the double-height lobbies are

flooded with light by large openings stretching from
floor to ceiling, designed to confer strong visual
continuity with the park. Access to all stairwells is
provided by main and service lifts. The underground CityLife Milano park plan by Gustafson
parking areas lead directly to the individual buildings Porter:
with easy, convenient and secure access. All the plots are arranged radially
around the main park
SERVICES
The buildings can accommodate up to 230 luxury apartments, with common facilities.

A contemporary art museum, a shopping area with bars and restaurants, and a pavilion for exhibitions,
sports, entertainment and fashion shows are also part of the project.

Access to all stairwells is provided by main and service lifts.

The underground parking areas lead directly to the individual buildings with easy, convenient and
secure access.
LAND USAGE & SITE CONTEXT
Great care has been given to the site and building
orientation, taking into account environmental and
comfort requirements so that most apartments face
south-east and at the same time allocate the best
views from the terraces, towards the city or the public
park.

At ground level, the double-height lobbies are

flooded with light by large openings stretching from
floor to ceiling, designed to confer strong visual
continuity with the park. Access to all stairwells is
provided by main and service lifts. The underground
parking areas lead directly to the individual buildings
with easy, convenient and secure access.