Zaha Hadid was known for her revolutionary designs that defied gravity and featured asymmetrical, fragmented shapes. Her first built project, the Vitra Fire Station, featured irregular concrete planes that appeared to slide past each other. Within, lines of light directed precise movement through curved and compressed ceilings and floors. Her MAXXI museum in Rome responded to existing industrial buildings on site, absorbing the landscape and intensifying surrounding space with fluid, sinuous galleries flowing between interior and exterior. Hadid's designs featured complex, varied spaces offering constantly changing views.

1. Prepared by
Ar. M. Senthil

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

5. Vitra Fire Station
•Vitra Fire Station was Zaha Hadid's first built project.
•The building functioned as a firehouse until the fire district
lines were re-drawn.
•The building is now used by Vitra as a showplace for part of its
permanent collection of chairs.

6. -asymmetrical and irregular shapes, which allows multiple entries into the
building
- use of distortion makes the walls seem to melt and floors seem to curve
- the ceilings are generally appeared to be compressed, bended, and/or
expanded
- her work represents how nature was established and developed by means
of overlaps, rhythms and textures, like an artificial landscape

7. Vitra Fire Station
The Model
“The whole building is
movement, frozen. It expresses the
tension of being on the alert; and
the potential to explode into action
at any moment.”
Front View
The intersection of each shape
is carefully calculated each
parts of the building
complement each other
Back View
composition of
jutting, irregular, sharp concrete
planes
emphasizing the horizontal plane

8. Vitra Fire Station
Exterior
Second floor
Interior
Second floor
Linear, layered series of walls which appear to
slide past each other, while the large sliding
doors literally form a moving wall
Second floor Interior
The lines of light direct the necessarily precise and fast movement
through the building.Roof of 1st floor becomes patio for 2nd floor

9. MAXXI, ROME

10. MAXXI, ROME
• MAXXI stands for ‘Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo’
(National Museum of 21st Century Art).
• 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 program offers a flexible, interdisciplinary arena for the
exhibition of contemporary art and architecture and for live
events.

11. MAXII, ROME
• 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.
• Hadid's architecture can thus be understood as an
intensification of the surrounding space. 'a scene for
thought, with art as a player on the cene' says hadid.

15. 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.

17. 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.

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1. ABU DHABI PERFORMING ARTS CENTREDhabi
2. BEETHOVEN CONCERT HALL- Germany
3.
JS BASH CHAMBER MUSIC HALLUK
4. RABAT GRAND THEATHRE- Morocco
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30. Product
designs
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1. Limited Edition
LACOSTE shoe (2009)
2. Louis Vittion ICONE
BAG (2006)
3. Skein Sleeve Bracelet
(2009)
4. Zcar II (2008)
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