This ppt is purely in ENGLISH.

1. "Only rarely does an architect emerge with a philosophy and approach to the
art form that influences the direction of the entire field. Such an architect is
Zaha Hadid..." -- Bill Lacy, architect
Presented by:
Kartik Sood
10110026

2.  She 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.

3. 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

4.  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.

5. Projects Considered for Study:
 Museum of Art, XXI (MAXXI),
Rome, Italy.
 Phaeno Science Center,
Wolfsburg, Germany

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

7. 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.

9. MAXII, ROME
 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 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.

11. Zaha Hadid
 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".

13. The architecture of MAXXI
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.

16. 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.

18. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25.  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.

26.  Dentro de ellas se
desarrollan distintas
funciones como librería,
sala de conferencias y un
auditorio para 250
personas.
Among them develop various
functions as a library,
conference rooms and an
auditorium for 250 people.

27. 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.
 Were used in construction, 27 cubic meters of concrete and
more than 3,500 steel beams.

28. The "cones"
 So called piles, appointed by the architect as cones, which are
widening as rise.
 There are 10 of them and each one is identified by its curvature and
tilt.
 These piles are inhabited with windows, and sliding glass doors.

29. Conclusion:
 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.

30. Thank You
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