Zaha Hadid was an influential Iraqi-British architect known for her deconstructivist style. Some key projects include the MAXXI Museum in Rome, characterized by interweaving concrete tubes resembling infrastructure, and the Phaeno Science Center in Germany, appearing as a mysterious object in the landscape that integrates interior and exterior spaces. Hadid broke from traditional architecture using sharp angles, non-orthogonal forms, and fluid spaces influenced by her painting background.

1. “Only rarely does an architect emerge with a philosophy and approach to
the art form of that influences the direction of the entire field. Such an
architect is Zaha Hadid…” –Bill Lacy.

2. BIOGRAPHY
 She was born on October 31, 1950
in Baghdad Iraq.
 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.

3. STYLE
 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 building with
landscape.
 Integrated into their architectural designs using spiral
forms.
 She is known worldwide for her talent in various
disciplines such as painting, graphic arts, three
dimensional model and computer designs.

4. Projects considered for study
 Museum of Art, XXI (MAXXI), Rome,
Italy.
 Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg,
Germany.

5. MAXXI, ROME

6. MAXXI, ROME
 MAXXI stands for Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI (National museum of 21st
Centaury Art).
 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.

8.  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.
 The center 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 enviroment.

11. Architecture of MAXXI
 Two principle architectural elements
characterize the project:
 The concrete walls that define the
exhibition galleries and determine the
interweaving of volumes.
 The transparent roof that modulates natural
light. The roofing system compiles with the
highest standards required foe museums
and is composed of integrated frames and
louvers with devices for filtering sunlight,
artificial light and environmental control.

13. EL PHAENO

14. 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.
 This offers a different option for visitors,
with its traditional theme park Autostadt
and Volkswagen museum.

15. ANALYSIS
 The building appears in a 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 terrain place either inwards
or through the building composing a
displacement interconnection routes.

16. LANDSCAPE
 It appears as a mysterious object that arouses
curiosity and discovery.
 The terrain passes underneath the volume as
an artificial landscape with the rolling hills and
valleys that stretch around the square.
 The center captures the surrounding
landscape dynamics in elongated form off the
ground.
 The public path leads bridge like woodworm-
hole inside the building, promoting interaction
between the inside and outside which enables,
as in floor, a fushion of both.

17. 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.
 It 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.

19. TECHNIQUES AND
MATERIALS
 Concrete: the roof structure is
steel.
 Façade: has only large
portions of concrete.
 Glazed areas: they used large
glass shades. Furthermore we
can see skylights, respecting
the diamond pattern was made
in concrete.

20. CONCLUSION
 Her work has revealed that
Zaha Hadid is an
independent and energetic
person who has authentic
taste. As a woman, her
designs metaphors has
represented the spirit of
“sharp-energetic-feminine”
figure in architecture.

21. THANK YOU
Jay Prajapati