Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect known for her experimental designs that push boundaries. Her works experiment with new spatial concepts that intensify urban landscapes with a visionary aesthetic. Notable built works include the Vitra Fire Station and Bergisel Ski Jump. Her style is characterized by deconstructivism, light volumes, sharp angles, and integration of buildings with landscapes. She is renowned worldwide for her talent across many design disciplines.

1. ZAHA HADID
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2. ZAHA HADID
Zaha Hadid is an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture
and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying
existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses
all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and
furniture. Best known for her seminal built works (Vitra Fire Station, Land
Formation-One, Bergisel Ski Jump, Strasbourg Tram Station and Rosenthal Centre for
Contemporary Art in Cincinnati) her central concerns involve a simultaneous
engagement in practice, teaching and research

3. • 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.
STYLE

4. ZAHAAria Pendant Lamp
A light piece that is charged with Hadid’s dramatic sense of motion combined with the intrinsic weightlessness of technically
advanced materials. With its 50 layers of Crystalflex®, this suspension light has a complex harmonic yet fluid contemporary quality.
With its translucent black overly, a fascinating sculpture in light.
Typology:
Suspension Lamp
Dimensions:
Diam 90cm x h 130cm
Material:
Lentiflex® and Cristalflex®
Color:
Black Fade
Lighting:
6 X 52W max - E27 Halogen +1 X 100W - E27Spotlight Halogen
Design:
Zaha Hadid
Manufacturer:
Slamp

6. The Ordrupgaard Bench
This bench in solid ash was designed by the Iraqi born architect, Zaha Hadid in 2005, as part of the interior of
the annex she designed for Ordrupgaard Museum in Charlottenlund just north of Copenhagen. The bench
became part of PP Møbler´s collection in the spring 2006.
PP Møbler has made ten pieces of the bench with four benches in the museum and one bench sold privately.
The last five benches were used at the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. Of those five
benches from COP15, one was given to a WWF charity auction, where the participants at COP15 had signed
the bench. The remaining four benches from COP15 have been sold to interested buyers/collectors. The
bench will not be made anymore.
Design:
Zaha Hadid
Manufacturer:
PP Mobler

8. Tide Shelivng
Atelier Zaha Hadid developped this project starting from the idea of a light shaped object, which could
express the transition from the solid traditional furniture to the slight thickness of plastic: from this
starting point the idea of going back to the algorithm of the minimum surfaces.
A minimum surface is a surface whose points have a medium radius equivalent to zero. An example of
this is represented by the soap bubbles coming out when a string is dipped in a soap solution.
This idea took the shape of a symmetric module creating different compositions through various
rotations on itself.
The possibility to build and rebuild up the module to fit to the space around or to the different needs
makes this project an unicum, where full and empty spaces follow each other without interruption.
Design:
Zaha Hadid
Manufacturer:
Magis

10. Floating staircase
The new floating staircase maintains the lightness of the gallery space. Each
suspended step is articulated as a separate ribbon cast from Ductal®,
-an ultra-high performance concrete with exceptional structural as well as
aesthetic qualities.
- The tensile strength of Ductal® allows the ribbons to remain relatively thin with
each tread cast from a single adjustable mould that was engineered in Italy by Il
Cantiere.

11. - The floating staircase has been designed to be demountable

12. Aqua table
-The enigmatic liquid form of the Aqua table awakens one’s curiosity. --
-The user is invited to explore the forces of motion that created such a
form.
-The form is blurring the relationship between the horizontal top and
vertical legs
-The three blisters bulging out to form legs below the table surface
register as indentations at the top surface

13. -The Aqua table is an organic body fl owing within space.
-Rather than being static, it implies motion by adopting the dynamic gestures of
liquid to form a continuous surface.
- The table’s asymmetrical, irregular tabletop and varying edges create an ergonomic
solid that offers endless relationship possibilitieswith its user and its environment

14. -Through surface mutations at three local points, the table’s legs emerge to form a
singular, unbroken surface, elevating the tabletop and stabililzing the beneath. –
These mutations are infl ected in the tabletop surface to enhance the singular
monolithic form of the Aqua table. Through surface mutations at three local
points, the table’s legs emerge to form a singular, unbroken surface, elevating the
tabletop and stabililzing the beneath. These mutations are infl ected in the
tabletop surface to enhance the singular monolithic form of the Aqua table.

15. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
URBAN VOIDS EXHIBITION, PORTUGAL

16. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Z- islands , Du-Pont, Milan Italy
What do you think is the inspiration sources for
these futuristic kitchen island units?
Melting ice or flowing glaciers ?
Photographer: Leo Torri

17. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Z- islands , Du-Pont, Milan Italy
Photographer: Leo Torri

18. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
MAK Vienna, Austria. 2003
Photographer: Helene Binet

19. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
MAK Vienna, Austria. 2003
Photographer: Helene Binet

20. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Hotel Puerta America, Madrid, Spain . 2003-2005

21. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Hotel Puerta America, Madrid, Spain.

22. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Vortexx chandelier
The design idea of these chandeliers are based
on fluidity and seamlessness. Their complex
curvilinearity follows a double
Helix, connecting its beginning to its end and
therefore forming an endless ribbon of light.

23. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Vortexx chandelier

24. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Vortexx chandelier
Direct as well as indirect light can be emitted to
the environment. Consequently different lighting
atmospheres may be created by the user in
order to match the specific space in which
the chandelier is installed.

25. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Vortexx chandelier

26. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid
Swarm chandelier
Photographer: Roland Halbe

27. MOON seating working with B&B Italia, 2007.
MOON sofa is modular seating systems. Each
unit can be
rotated, interlocked, and all the units
joined up to make one seating system.
Complex double-curvature geometries are
used by Zaha Hadid to achieve a smooth
movement between the seating
spaces and units.

28. ’
The inspiration for the ‘Seamless’ furniture collection is the
concept of ‘seamless fluidity’.
The latest development in three dimensional design
software and the most cutting edge manufacturing
techniques help to make such furniture a possibility.
These unique pieces explore :
soft meets sharp,
the combination of convex and concave

29. The Mesa table takes the idea of a table
back to basics:
ground support and a surface,
between these two, a structure is
created in which the gaps (voids)
express the form as much as the solids

30. • Her works has revealed that Zaha
Hadid is an independent and energetic
person who has authentic works and
brave enough to speak up about her
own taste. As a woman, her design
metaphors has represent the spirit of
“sharp-energetic-feminine” figure in
architecture.
CONCLUSION