Seminar

on
zaha hadid

AR. ZAHA HADID

INTRODUCTION

THE ARCHITECTURAL CAREER OF Ms. ZAHA HADID

HAS NOT BEEN TRADITIONAL OR EASY .SHE
ENTERED THE FIELD WITH ILLUSTRIOUS
CREDENTIALS.

She is a British deconstructivist architect .

She designs buildings that look like they explode
Defying gravity and a single point of view she
creates collages of lines and planes that disrupt
our usually static view of cities.

Known for challenging popular convention, Zaha

Hadid stands out as the only female independent
practitioner among today's most elite architects.
She has been recognized internationally for her
architecture and urban designs, as well as for her
paintings and drawings.
Hadid creates animated vision of cities and buildings
that pirouette around each other in a interplay of
delicate planes.
Her works are often compared to that of Russian
supremacist and constructivist artist of 1910s
&1920s.

Hadid has her own ideas on architecture to nurture.

And it was a long incubation. She started teaching at
the AA while developing her own brand of neomodernist architecture, one which went back to
modernisms roots in the constructivism and
suprematism of the early 20th century.
Zaha Hadid has patiently created and refined a
vocabulary that sets new boundaries for the art of
architecture.

Zaha Hadids work reminds us that architecture is a

siphon for collective energies, a far cry from the
stand alone building, perennially oblivious to the
vitality of the city.

Hadids fragmented geometry and fluid

mobility do more than create an abstract,
dynamic beauty; this is a body of work that
explores and expresses the world we live in.
Hadids architecture denies its own solidity.
Short of creating actual forms that morph
and change shape still the stuff of science
fiction Hadid creates the solid apparatus to
make us perceive space as if it morphs and
changes as we pass through.

WORKS OF ZAHA HADID:

MIND ZONE

Vitra Fire Station

The MIND ZONE in the

millennium dome has
been completed in
DEC 1999 comprising
unique undertaking
,ZAHA HADID
ARCHITECTS has
designed the
curatorial aspects &
the architectural
scheme.
This is her first major
work in Britain

The Mind zone is one of 14 individual

exhibition spaces with in the millennium
dom. the Millennium Dome is a 360m
circular tensile fabric covered structure .

Organized internally around a central show arena

& circulation path, there are 14 designed exhibit
zones.

Each zone is thematic around working titles such

as BODY, PLAY, WORK, MIND etc.

Responding to an ideas competition

for two of zones , ZAHA Hadid
Architects won the contract for the
mind zone, & is dedicated to the
exploration of mind.

DIFFERENT ZONES OF MIND ZONE:

MONEY ZONE

JOURNEY ZONE

Faith ZONE

Home planet

Rest & Play Zone

Self Portrait Zone

The main entrance is through ramp under the spreading

shelter of deacons wood-cell sculpture.
Then the sloping ramp that drive you through the building
takes a sharp twist to the right,& you find yourself
underneath a dizzy ling projection screen.

This approach of exhibit selection with structural design has evolved

as integrated design for a complex subject matter.

To solve this problem she worked with

Doris Lockhart saatchi an artist to create sitespecification installations exploring various
aspect of mind.

The exhibit structure of folding continuous

surfaces is seen as a host , the physical
presence on which & in which context can be
located.

The folding structures offers a spatial

interplay & confrontation with the subject
matter which strives TO evoke the
participant to think.

The ramp then shoots forward towards the

center of the dome & offers a grand stand view
of the huge void at its heart.
The insight into the creation of daring structure
in the Dome which appears to defy gravity and
which houses a zone exploring the amazing
powers of the human brain

Various artists have contribute to this concept of mind:

Richard deacon marked the entrance with how much does
your mind weigh? a piece made up of 24 interlocking wood
cells, Lang lands & bell have made a giant neon wall airport
codes

The pavilion was

conceived as journey
through &around
these installations that
explore both art &
science.
As you follow the
journey that Hadid has
devised, you can for a
moment forget where
you are & experience a
series of thrilling
spaces.

The structure is big enough

& bold
enough to stand the
potentially overwhelming
scale of the dome itself.
It marks giant attention
grabbing presence. It also
holds up against the
cluttered
The exhibit is organized
around propositions, which
lead a participant through
the exhibit by conditional
stages

Throughout it is this
understanding of an ability
to avoid the restriction of
the definitions that allow
any mind to evolve &
progress.
Structurally the exhibit
integrates the context with
the usage of
evolulationary materials.
Its materiality is focused
on the synthetic, the mind
made material of the
present.

A large and disturbingly realistic model of a boy, in the Mind

Zone.
Apparently he's a symbol of curiosity, but worthwhile as a
work of art.

A giant mouse, is the boy's

pet?

The entire design for this zone developed

from a model made by bending a strip of
Perspex into continuous structure of floors ,
walls & ceilings & the result provides a fluid
journey through a sequence of polymer
ramps &planes that seem to fold over each
other.

Vitra Fire Station

The Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein

was Zaha Hadid's first built project. The
relatively small structure serves as a
showcase for the unusual shapes and
angles that architectural critics
IT admired in her conceptual work
throughout the 1980s, with un-built
projects such as her winning entry for
the Peak International Design
Competition for Hong Kong in 1983

rather than designing the buildings as an

isolated object it was developed as the outer
edge of the landscaped zone , defining rather
than occupying space.
The program of the fire station inhibits the
spaces between the walls which puncture , tilt
and break according to functional requirements.
The whole building is movement frozen, it
expresses the tension of being on the alert, and
potential to explode into action at any moment.
The walls appear to slide past each other while
large sliding doors literally form a moving wall.

The whole building is constructed of exposed ,

reinforced in situ concrete special attention was
given to the sharp edges .
Any attachments like roof edging or cladding
were avoided as they distract from the simplicity
of the prismatic form and abstract quality of the
architectural concept.
The treatment of the interior spaces including
the lighting scheme the lines of the light direct
the fast movements through the building.

The inside of the building is as

imaginative as the outside, with
multiple optical tricks being played on
the viewer especially in the bathrooms
of the downstairs portion of the
building.
Hadid's interplay of angles and use of
color makes the building's interior as
visually interesting as the outside
without making it unnecessarily busy.

Aside from the obvious appeal of the

building's outside, it should be noted that the
back of the building also features poured
concrete benches which mirror the buildings
more sculptural qualities.
The rear end of the building also features an
interesting connection to Le Corbusier Notre
Dame due Haut, whereby Hadid seems to
evoke the front end of a large ship, with its
sharp end and exaggerated height.

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