ZAHA HADID

QUEEN OF CURVES
NEW DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE
Her origin

• Zaha was born on October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq.

She studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut
(Lebanon) in 1968.
• In 1972 she moved to London (UK), to join the Association
of Architecture where she graduated with honors in 1977
and served as a teacher soon after.
After her first building was commissioned and built in 1994, the
Vitra Fire Station in Germany, her career took a leap forward.

• In 2004, she was bestowed with Pritzker prize and the

Stirling prize in 2010 and 2011.

• Today her fluid buildings can be found all around the

world..

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- FUTURISTIC DESIGNING STYLE (create buildings that would
sparkle like isolated jewels

- FLUID ARCHITECTURE( in usage of forms , not water

elements)/ flowing architecture

- DECONSTRUCTIVIST ( buildings may seems to have no

visual logic. They may appear to be made up of unrelated,
disharmonious, abstract forms
DESIGN
PHILOSOPHY
AND PRINCIPLES
FLUID
KINETIC
PARAMETRIC
LIGHT WEIGHT
TILTED AND INTERGRATED

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Vitra Fire Station GERMANY

Location: Weil am Rhein, Germany

Year: 1990-1993
Area: 852 meter square
Concept and design
The site had several of the factories within the
complex had been damaged in a fire due to the fact
that the site had no fire district lines, hence need a
new station.
The whole building is movement, frozen. It expresses
the tension of being on the alert and potential to
explode into action at any movement.
 It was a simple project from Zaha Hadid’s point of
view but an important one as it marked the
beginning of her career.

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MAXXI MUSEUM , FLAMINIO QUARTER OD ROME.
MAXXI MUSEUM , FLAMINIO QUARTER
OD ROME.

CONCEPT was to create a fluid building,

dropping the traditional articulation in
separate, secluded, rooms typical of
many old and modern museums, as well
as the rigid distinction between interior
and external space

• The building is a composition of bending oblong tubes,

overlapping, intersecting and piling over each other, resembling
a piece of massive transport infrastructure

• It acts as a tie between the geometrical elements already

present.

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MAXXI MUSEUM , FLAMINIO QUARTER OD ROME.
INTERIORS

• 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.

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MAXXI MUSEUM , FLAMINIO QUARTER OD ROME.
INTERIORS

Galleries, Walkway and Materials

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.
Materials such as glass (roof), steel (stairs) and
cement (walls) give the exhibition spaces a neutral
appearance, whilst mobile panels enable curatorial
flexibility and variety.

The fluid 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.
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HEYDAR ALIYEV cultural center ,BAKU AZERBAIJAN

WALLED CITY OF BAKU- ANCIENT MODERN BUILDINGS WITH ALL GLASS SHELLS
BAKU SETTLEMENTS

CREATS VIBRANCES AND CONTRAST

FROM THE SURROUNDING

ESTABLISHED A CONTINUOUS, FLUID RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN THE SURROUNDING PLAZA AND THE
INTERIOR.
Public plaza for the cultural program of
museum, library and conference center CONCRETE STRUCTURE COMBINED WITH A SPACE
FRAME SYSTEM.

BAKU CITY SITE HAS BEEN UTELISED THE TOPOGRAPY

-BAD WIND , SNOW STORMS AND EARTHQUAKE – PRONE AREA
- WIDELY VARYING ARCHITECTURE- OLD CITY CORE TO MODERN
BUILDINGS
OF THE SITE – BY PROVIDING
A TERRACED LANDSCAPE THAT PROVIDES
ALTERNATIVE ROUTES AND CONNECTIONS
BETWEEN THE PUBLIC SQUARE , PLAZA AND
UNDERGROUND PRAKING

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HEYDAR ALIYEV cultural center ,BAKU AZERBAIJAN
LIGHTINGS
INTERIOR SPACES
LIGHTINGS ARE EMPHASIZING THE RELATION BETWEEN
THE BUILDING’S EXTERIOR AND INTERIORS.
NATURAL LIGHTS ENTERS THROUGH ATRIUMS

GROUND FLOOR HAS SEVERAL

SPACES, LOBBY CREATING PUBLIC
PLACES THAT UNITE THE
DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF CULTURAL
CENTERS.

DYNAMISUM IN THE SPACE ,

WHERE FLOORS TURNS INTO
RAMPS AND WALLS , TWISTING
INTO SOFFITS AND CEILINGS
RECESSED LIGHT FEATURES IN CEILINGS ,
FLOOR SLOTS

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Thank You
MEGHANA S