AR.

ZAHA HADID

NAME : SUPRIYA D. DALVI

SUBJECT : DESIGN SEMINAR
B.DES , 4TH YEAR
NAME : ZAHA MOHAMMED HADID
LIVED :- 31 OCT 1950 – 31 MAR 2016 ( AGE 65)
STRUCTURES :- (a)LONDON AQUATICS CENTRE
(b) MAXXI
(C) RIVERSIDE MUSEUM
(d)GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE
ARTWORK : SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
PEAK SLABS BLACK
THE PEAK PROJECT
HONG KONG
EDUCATION : ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE (1972-1977) AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF
BEIRUT
PARRENTS : MOHAMMED HADID (father)
 ABOUT ZAHA HADID
• She was described by The Guardian of London as the "Queen of the curve", who "liberated
architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity". Her major works include the 
London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, the Broad Art Museum in the US, the 
MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Guangzhou Opera House in China. Some of her awards have been
presented posthumously, including the statuette for the 2017 Brit Awards. Several of her buildings
were still under construction at the time of her death, including the large Daxing International Airport
 in Bejing, and the Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar, a venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

• 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. In 2012, she was made a 
Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in February, 2016, the month preceding her
death, she became the first woman to be individually awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the 
Royal Institute of British Architects (Ray Eames and Sheila O'Donnell had previously been awarded it
jointly with Charles Eames and John Tuomey respectively)
 STYLE
• Her style is Deconstructivism ( breaking architecture, displacement
and distortion, leaving the vertical and the horizontal, using rotations
on small, sharp angles, breaks up structures apparent chaos)
• Using light volumes, sharp, angular forms, the play of light and the
integration of the buildings with the landscape.
• Integrated into their architectural designs using spiral forms.
• She is an architect known worldwide for her talent in various
disciplines such as painting, graphic arts, three dimensional models
and computer design.
Zaha Hadid’s design philosophy
• Hadid stated that her architectural designs were not intended as a personal stamp on the world,
or an act of self-indulgence. Rather, addressing 21st-century challenges and opportunities is the
cornerstone to Zaha Hadid’s style and creations.
• Architecture, she claimed, "must contribute to society's progress and ultimately to our individual
and collective wellbeing." The buildings born of her vision and the collective genius of her firm
Zaha Hadid Architects, may sometimes seem fantastical, triumphant and even a bit loud, but
they all stem from architecture’s base function – to facilitate and even perform everyday life.
• This successful architect is a polarising figure, with outspoken suggestions to pedestrianise vast
swathes of London, a plan which aims to alleviate problems such as pollution and road safety.
Plans by Zaha Hadid Architects for two soaring towers in Vauxhall have also had their fair share
of opposition, as well as support.
• Whether it's for her more controversial designs, her unrealised dreams or her masterpieces which
have come to fruition, Zaha Hadid’s style is rightly globally recognised, and she has obtained
legendary status since her death in March 2016. In the following, we will introduce you in more
detail to some of her best-known creations.
MAXXI, ROME
• MAXXI stands for ‘Museo nazionale delle arti del XXIsecolo’ (National
Museum of 21st Century Art).
• The museum will become the joint home of the MAXXI Arts and MAXXI
Architecture and Italy’s first national museum soley dedicated to
contemporary arts.
• Zaha Hadid architects, out of 273 candidates, won the architectural
competition to design the building in 1998 with a design that responds
to the form and arrangement of existing industrial buildings on the site.
• The building is a composition of bending oblong
tubes, overlapping, interesting and piling over
each other, resembling a piece of massive
transport infrastructure.
• It acts as a tie between the geometrical
elements already present.
• It is built on the site of old army barracks
between the river tiber and via guido reni, the
centre is made up of spaces that flow freely and
unexpectedly between interior and exterior,
where walls twist to become floors or ceilings.
• The building absorbs the landscape structures,
dynamizes them and gives them back to the
urban environment.
The architecture of MAXXI
• Two principle architectural elements
characterize the project
• The concrete walls that define the exhibition
galleries and determine the interviewing of
volumes;
• And the transparent roof that modulates
natural light. The roofing system complies
with the highest standards required for
museums and is composed of integrated
frames and louvers with devices for filtering
sunlight, artificial light and environmental
control.
Galleries, Walkway and
Material
• Located around a large full height space which
gives access to the galleries dedicated to
permanent collections and temporary
exhibitions, the auditorium, reception
services, cafeteria and bookshop.
• Outside, pedestrian walkway follows the
outline of the building, restoring an urban link
that has been blocked for almost a century by
the former military barracks in Rome.
• Material such as a glass (roof), steel (stairs)
and cement (walls) give the exhibition spaces
a neutral appearance, whilst mobile panels
enable curatorial flexibility and variety.
Sinuous shape
• The fluid and sinuous shape, the variety and interweaving of spaces
and the modulated use of natural light lead to a spatial and functional
framework of great complexity, offering constantly changing and
unexpected views from within the building and outdoor spaces.
FAMOUS STRUCTURES OF ZAHA HADID :
BRIDGE PAVILION
The Bridge Pavilion was constructed for the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza (Spain)
as one of its main landmarks. It is an innovative 270-metre- long covered
bridge that imitates a gladiola over the river Ebro. The bridge a multi-level
exhibition area with expected 10,000 visitors per hour to frequent the
pavilion of the world exhibition.
Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku is more
a ‘philosophy’ than an architectural marvel
The world-famous building that won the legendary Iraqi-British
architect the 'Design Museum's Design of the Year Award 2014',
builds a link between Azerbaijan's past and present.
Philosophically, they say, it reflects the cycle of life
• The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan (2007–2013) is a gigantic cultural and conference centre
containing three auditoriums, a library and museum, with a total space of 10,801 square metres on a
surface of 15,514 square metres, and a height of 74 metres. Hadid wrote that "its fluid form emerges from
the folds of the natural topography of the landscape and envelops the different functions of the centre",
though the building when completed was largely surrounded by Soviet-era apartment blocks. Peter Cook
in Architectural Review called it "a white vision, outrageously total, arrogantly complete ... a unique object
that confounds and contradicts the reasonable ... a wave form sweeping up, almost lunging, into the sky ...
here is architecture as the ultimate statement of theatre ... It is the most complete realisation yet of the
Iraqi-born architect's vision of sweeping curves and flowing space."
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