Zaha Hadid: Lines of the Landscape by Talcia A. Brown

ZAHA HADID LINES OF THE LANDSCAPE

Talcia A Brown

“I don’t think architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, calm you, make you think.” Architecture is not simply the design of an enclosure, but it is something that speaks to nature and its viewer, it is an art form to revered. Architecture should be designed so it seamlessly interject themselves into the landscape and sometimes cityscape that surround it and not become an invasion to its surroundings. Dame Zaha Hadid is a world renowned, award-winning architect, who not only believes but practices this. Born in Iraq, Hadid became most well known for her of paintings and her radical deconstructive architecture. Prior to the 1986 construction of the IBA Housing in Berlin, Germany many thought her designs were too radical and unbuildable. Zaha Hadid has since become recognized for her expressive, and award

winning designs. Her accolades include being the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 and in 2015 she became the first and only woman to win the Royal Gold Medal from Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II made her a Dame for services to architecture. Dubbed the “Queen of the Curves” by The Guardian based in London, Hadid’s architecture has baffled many and can only be described as beautiful. The forms of her building tend to make an attempt to follow surrounding landscape, consisting of very little or no straight lines. Her buildings create a unique experience, as the curves often brought to the interior. With the completion of each building, Hadid earns a place in history for their futuristic designs, architectural ideology and charismatic presence. The dramatic and curved nature of Hadid’s build-

ings gave her a reputation of building the unbuildable. She is lorded as the greatest female architect of her time, breaking many barriers and carving a place for herself in the history books. This collection of works is meant to highlight the correlation between Hadid’s designs and lines created by the landscape. The buildings designed by Zaha Hadid seem to speak to their landscape and attempt to create a harmonious dialogue. Hadid creates curvilinear plans to produce building that melt into what is often an irregular site. The “Queen of Curves” creates works of arts with the help of Mother Nature and the beautiful landscapes she erects.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Habitable Bridge London, UK 1996

Landesgartenschau Weil Am Ahein, Germany 1999

E.On Energy Reseach Centre

The Circle at Zurich Airport

Maxxi: National Museum

Glasgow Riverside Museum

Aachen, Germany 2006

Rome, Italy 2009

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Kloten, Switzerland 2009

Glasgow, UK 2010

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HABITABLE BRIDGE

The Habitable Bridge is a concept exploring the idea of a bridge possibly becoming a horizontal skyscraper, which offers accommodation, retail, cultural, and recreational spaces. The program space is organized in vertically with open access, free flow streets. The spaces and routes function as a fluid whole, the floor plate distorts and splits to create voids and maximizes the water bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence underneath it.

LANDESGARTENSCHAU

Landesgartenschau also referred to as Landscape Formation One, was designed and built as an event and exhibition space for the 1999 garden festival in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Hadid created a structure that did not sit isolated from the landscape around it, but seem to rise up from it. She exploits fluidity with geometry of the surrounding paths with which the building is entangled and interwoven.

Landscape Formation One was one project in a series of project that Hadid had intended to elicit new fluid spaces from an on-going analysis of naturally occurring landscapes. Which included river details, mountain ranges, deserts, ice flow and ocean, which influenced the designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outcome.

E. ON ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE Architecture has a strong complimentary relationship with energy; each component has more than one function that must perform as one unit. The E. On Energy Research Centre can be found at the RWTH University in Aachen, Germany with a site clearly defined by an existing railway track as well as an major 4-lane roadway. The building took the form of the movement that takes place around it.

THE CIRCLE AT ZURICH AIRPORT

The Circle at Zurich Airport design responds to the continuous curve towards the airport and convex erosion on the opposite side. Hadid hoped that the building would embrace nature and optimize the views from the building.

MAXXI:NATIONAL MUSEUM OF XXII CENTURY ART

MAXXI Museum supersedes any one it can particular culture and all whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen The . tive only describe its design as innova ndmuseum integrates itself into its surrou nds rou ings and reinterprets the grid that sur try. This it and creates it own complex geome cement. is expressed through glass, steel and

GLASGOW RIVERSIDE MUSEUM

The museum is situated where the city meets the River Kelvin and Clyde, and represents a symbolic flow between their relationships. The building itself was designed as a sectional extrusion with both end being open and emulates a wave or pleat.

ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aram. “Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings.” ARAM. January 3, 2017.