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1. ZAHA HADID
DHRITIVERMA
KRITIKA POPLI
IIIRDYEAR, USAP
HISTORY PRESENTATION
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3. HER INSPIRATION/STYLE
"My father took us to see the Sumerian cities.Then we went by boat, and then on a smaller one made
of reeds, to visit villages in the marshes. The beauty of the landscape—where sand, water, reeds,
birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together—has never left me. I'm trying to discover—
invent, I suppose—an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same
thing in a contemporary way.”
•She says her architecture expresses and sense of motion like “ a controlled explosion it is concerned
with composing intersecting paths, routes and volumes in forms that are dynamic rather than static.”
•She doesn't use rule filled modernism in her architecture: walls ,ceilings, front and back and right
angles
•Instead she uses multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to symbolize the chaotic
fluidity in modern life.
•Her style is Deconstructivism (breaking architecture, displacement and distortion, leaving the
vertical and the horizontal, using rotations on small, sharp angles, breaks up structures)
•Using light volumes, sharp, angular forms, the play of light and the integration of the buildings with
the landscape.
STYLE IN 5 WORDS
•Organic
•Natural
•Innovative
•Modern
•Flowing

4. MAXXI, ROME
 MAXXI stands for ‘Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo’ (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 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 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.
 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
andexterior, where walls twist to become
floors or ceilings.
 The building absorbs the landscape structures,
dynamizes them and gives them back to the
urban environment.

5. A MAIN THEME OF HADID'S DESIGNS EXHIBITS
THAT A BUILDING CAN FLOAT AND DEFY GRAVITY.
CONCEPT:
"GRAVITY-DEFYING",
"FRAGMENTARY"
"REVOLUTIONARY"

6.  Zaha Hadid stated: "I see the MAXXI as an immersive urban environment for the
exchange of ideas, feeding the cultural vitality of the city. It's no longer just a
museum, but an urban cultural centre where a dense texture of interior and
exterior spaces have been intertwined and superimposed over one another. It's
an intriguing mixture of galleries, irrigating a large urban field with linear display
surfaces".
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.
The architecture of MAXXI

7. 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.
 Outside, a 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.
 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.

8. Sinuous shape
 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.

9. LOCATION:
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.
A pass around high speed trains, to the Mittelland canal bank.
El Phaeno ,Science Museum
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, Receiving a 180mil visitors annually.

10. Urban Analysis
 The building appears in the landscape as a connecting element between the
two parts of the city, establishing a direct relationship with the city and
move through it. Multiple paths pedestrian and vehicle motion is in the
terrain place either inwards or through building composing a displacement
interconnection routes.
Landscape:
•It appears as a mysterious object that arouses
curiosity and discovery.
•The terrain passes underneath the volume as
an artificial landscape with rolling hills and
valleys that stretch around the square.
•The Center captures the surrounding
landscape dynamics in elongated form off the
ground, in aventajamientos crashes and walls
that give the illusion that the building is
moving.
•The public path leads bridge-like woodworm-
hole inside the building, promoting interaction
between the inside and outside which enables,
as in floor, a fusion of both.
Spaces:
•The building allows people to walk and climb
down one part of the pavement to get inside.
In other places, the ground floor takes visitors
to a public square. Downstairs open broad
prospects, exposing the context of the city,
between the concrete cones.

11.  The building does not tread the earth completely. Much stands on a square with a
series of large inverted conical shapes with rounded corners that act as legs and give
an effect of weightlessness.
Techniques and materials:
•Concrete.The roof structure is steel.
•Facade: Has only large portions of concrete.
•Glazed areas: They used large glass shades. Furthermore you can see
skylights, respecting the diamond pattern was made in the concrete.
•27 cubic meters of concrete and more than 3,500 steel beams, were used
in construction.

12.  Dentro de ellas se
desarrollan distintas
funciones como librería,
sala de conferencias y
un auditorio para 250
personas.
Various functions such library , conference
rooms and an auditorium for 250 people.

14. Pritzker Prize 2004
Seminal Works:
 Vitra Fire Station 1993
 LFOne/ Landesgartenschau 1999
 Bergisel Ski Jump 2002
 Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for
Contemporary Art 2003
 BMW Plant Central Building 2004
 Hotel Puerta America [interior] 2005
 Ordrupgaard Museum Extension 2005
 Phaeno Science Center 2005
 Museum of Art, XXI (MAXXI), 2010