ZAHA

HADID
 BIOGRAPHY
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA was an Iraqi architect, artist and
designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early
21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an
undergraduate and then enrolled at the Architectural Association School of
Architecture in 1972.

Many architects are called on to create new projects that stand as symbols of
social progress—but none delivered as regularly, as unexpectedly and as
spectacularly as Zaha Hadid. Her successes were so consistent, she received the
highest honours from civic, academic and professional institutions across the
globe. Her practice remains one of the world’s most inventive architectural
studios—and has been for almost 40 years.
 STYLE
Zaha Hadid's style is boldly contemporary, organic and innovative.
The architect pushes design through new technology and materials
and never does ordinary.
She was inspired by Yohji Yamamoto and his asymmetry
Her creations are more to do with topography and landscape,
emulating a natural form Aswell as creating architecture the architect
is a celebrated painter, designer of furniture and interior products +
fittings such as bowls and chandeliers.
Her favorite color is black. But with different textures.
 PHILOSOPHY
Her style is deconstructivism, that
encourages radical freedom of
form and the open manifestation of
complexity in a building rather
than strict attention to functional
concerns and conventional design
elements (as right angles or grids).
Using light volumes, sharp,
angular forms, the play of light and
the integration of the buildings
 CONCEPT

C • “GRAVITY-DEFYING",
• “FRAGMENTARY"
• "REVOLUTIONARY"

A MAIN THEME OF HADID'S

DESIGNS EXHIBITS THAT A
BUILDING CAN FLOAT AND
DEFY GRAVITY.
VITRA FIRE STATION
VITRA FIRE
STATION
•Vitra Fire Station was Zaha
Hadid's first built project.
•The building functioned as a deconstructivism
firehouse until the fire district
lines were re-drawn.
•The building is now used by
Vitra as a showplace for part of
its permanent collection of
chairs.
-asymmetrical and irregular shapes,
which allows multiple entries into the
building
- use of distortion makes the walls seem
to melt and floors seem to curve
- the ceilings are generally appeared to
be compressed, bended, and/or expanded
- her work represents how nature was
established and developed by means of
overlaps, rhythms and textures, like an
artificial landscape
 SPACES

The building was not designed as an

isolated object, but developed as the
outer edge of the garden area, defining
the space rather than occupying space.

This was achieved through the

provision of the program on a stretched,
in a long, narrow building next to the
road that marks the edge of the factory.
Space, defining and accommodating the
functions of the building, was the
starting point for the development of
architectural concept, a linear series and
stratified.
STRUCRTURE

It is a sealed building front, their interiors can only be sensed

from a perpendicular viewpoint. The resulting spaces,
obtained by using perforated walls, bent or broken, according
to functional requirements, provide fleeting vision of what is
housed inside.
The entire building is freezing motion. This expresses the
tension of being on the alert, and the potential to explode into
action at any time. The walls seem to glide past each other,
while large sliding doors are literally a moving wall.
The partition is minimized, articulating the spaces with three
longitudinal stainless steel cabinets that separate the
transparent area of the service area.
Second floor
This is rotated with respect to the bottom and it is accessed by
a stepladder independent. It placed a club composed of a
staff training room and conference.
 MATERIALS
The whole building is constructed with
reinforced concrete in situ in the light, avoiding
any added that distort the simplicity of its
prismatic form and the abstract quality of the
architectural concept, paying particular
attention to the sharpness of the edges.

The lack of detail was also applied on the

inside, rough opening frames, polished
aluminum sliding planes that close the garage
area, guard rails or lighting design, maintaining
a consistent language that gives meaning to the
whole.
MAXXI ROME
MAXXI ROME
• MAXXI stands for 'Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI secolo' (National Museum of
21st Century Art).
• Italy's first national museum solely
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 program offers a flexible,
interdisciplinary arena for the exhibition of INTERIOR VIEW
contemporary art and architecture and for
• 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.
• Hadid's architecture can thus be
understood as an intensification of the
surrounding space. 'a scene for
thought, with art as a player on the
INTERIOR SPACE

The interior spaces, defined by the

exhibition walls, are covered by a
glass roof that flood the galleries with
natural light filtered by the louvered
lines of the roofing beams.
These beams underline the linearity of
the spatial system, aid in articulating
the various orientations of the
galleries and facilitate circulation
through the museum and campus.
FEATURES OF THE
MUSEUM
The MAXXI consists of two museums:
"MAXXI art" and "MAXXI architecture". In
addition to the two museums, the MAXXI
also features an auditorium, a library and
media library specialized in art and
architecture, a bookshop, a cafeteria, a
bar/restaurant, galleries for temporary
exhibition, performances, educational
activities. The large public square designed
in front of the museum is planned to host art
works and live events.
What characterizes the MAXXI??
Two principle architectural elements
characterize the project: the concrete
walls that define the exhibition galleries
and determine the interweaving 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.
SINOUS SHAPE

Sinuous shape o The fluid and sinuous

shapes, 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.
EL PHAENO
EL PHAENO
-It is located in Wolfsburg, Germany.
This being the biggest factory in Europe,
employing more than 50,000 people, is
home to some 120,000 inhabitants. And
receives an average of a million and a
half visitors a year.
-Located in the city center, in an area
between the commercial and office.
SCIENCE
MUSEUM:
Science Museum: o In seeking to be more than the
"city volkswagen" she was commissioned to
launch the idea of creating a museum dedicated to
engage children and young people to the world of
physics, biology and chemistry, in a didactic way.
This offers a different option for visitors, with its
traditional theme park Autostadt and the
Volkswagen museum. It receives 180mil visitors
annually.
Volumetrically is composed of two architectural
elements, a large body of developing horizontal
suspended 8 meters from the ground and their
support: 10 cones of concrete that not only sustain
but continue to face upward to meet the roof.

It captures the dynamics of the surrounding

landscape in its elongated shape that is off the
CONCEPT

The building appears on the landscape as a

connection between the two areas of the city,
establishing a direct relationship with the city
and moving the crossing. Multiple paths of
pedestrian and vehicular movement are issued
instead of the artificial field and inward through
the building, forming an interconnected routes
of travel.

It is a heavy volume and sharp edges with

strong horizontal very pronounced, which
seems to levitate on the ground. Its shape
resembles a boat made of steel and glass.
Angular lines become more sinuous and plastic,
so that walls, ceilings and floors are mixed and
expand, creating a sense of constant
transformation.
 SPACES

The ground falls below the volume as an artificial

landscape with undulating hills and valleys that stretch
around the square. The building allows people to walk
under and up by a part of the pavement to get inside.
Elsewhere, the low floor and takes visitors on a public
square. Ground floor open broad prospects, making it the
context of the city, between the concrete cones.
The building does not fully pisa land. Much stands on a
plaza with a series of large inverted cone-shaped with
rounded corners that act as feet and bring an effect of
weightlessness. Among them are various functions such as
library, conference room and an auditorium for 250 people.
Since the largest of the cones is accessed via a staircase to
the main exhibition floor, where ceilings are distorted and
walls seem to merge with the emphasis on appearance
spacecraft is perceived inside and outside the work.
 SPACES
A central crater at the base of the building provides a view into different levels diagonal,
giving a high volume porosity and transparency. This vacuum is developed within the open
space for exhibitions in the main volume. The other volumes like protrusions that are
projected on the inside, staying other functions. A kind of tunnel glazing of a public nature, as
an extension of existing bridge, runs through the building allowing views to and from the
exhibition space.

The interior is characterized by irregular and articulation of space, where there is a clear
division of planes and spaces, but sudden openings between a wall and the other empty and
referrals from unexpected perspectives. Large glass surfaces offer a panoramic view of the
landscape.

The science center of the building has an area of 12,000 m2. The underground parking,
beneath the center, has a larger area of 15,000 m2 that spans the property.
 STRUCTURE AND
MATERIALS

The volume is made of reinforced

concrete. In the front you can see only
large portions of this material. In areas
using large glazed glass curtain. You can
also see skylights, respecting the
drawing rhombuses as was done in the
concrete.

The structure of the steel deck.