Tim Tocci / Prof. Rihab Bagnole / ARTH 701: Contemporary Art / 11.11.

2010

ORIGINS OF FIELD SPACE

An Exploration of Zaha Hadids Inspiration

BIO

1950 BORN IN BAGHDAD 1963 BAATH PARTY RISES 1977 GRADUATED AA 1980 ZHA FOUNDED 1983 THE POINT 1993 VITRA FIRE 1994 CARDIFF BAY 1997 WINS MAXXI 2001 STRASBOURG FINISHED 2004 PRITZKER AWARD 2007 AIA AWARD 2009 MAXXI OPENS

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre / 2007-2012

THESIS
Analogies from tectonic faults, geological systems, and more recently, organic systems (Schumacher 29) More primal systems > Cosmology Quantum Mechanics / Special Relativity / General Relativity

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

WHAT IS A FIELD?
Fragmentation and flow come together in the idea of the field. - Hadid ...spaces of a geometry that seem more related to quantum mechanics than to Euclid.

- Peter Noever

ITS NOT A GRID

2007-2012 ITS NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012 ITS NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012 ITS NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012 ITS NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012 ITS NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre 2007-2012

Nordpark Railway / 2007

WHAT IS SPACE?
The resultant graphic space greatly anticipates the later...concepts of field and swarm. The effect is very much like the effects currently pursued with...digitally simulated gravitational fields that grip, align, orient, and thus cohere a set of elements or particles with the digital model - Patrik Schumacher

Lotus / Installation for Venice Exhibit 2010

WHAT IS SPACE?
The dynamism in Hadids work develops through the conventional signs of planes, but describes the planes of future three-dimensional bodies. At a certain moment...Hadids work...explodes in the threedimensional time of the new architectural construction. - Gordana Fontana-Giusti

MORE THAN PLANES + VOLUMES

...Zaha Hadid has painted of cities and buildings bending in the throes of Einsteinian warp...

-Joseph Giovannini

MORE THAN PLANES + VOLUMES

...Zaha Hadid has painted of cities and buildings bending in the throes of Einsteinian warp...

-Joseph Giovannini

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

STRASBOURG TRAM TERMINUS

This latent shift in the definition of architecture from matter to energy becomes ultimately explicit in one of her most recent buildings, the Strasbourg tram terminus.

- Gordana Fontana-Giusti

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

STRASBOURG TRAM TERMINUS

The overall concept towards the planning of the car park and the station is one of overlapping fields and lines that knit together to form a constantly shifting whole. Those fields are the patterns of movement engendered by cars, trams, bicycles and pedestrians. Each has a trajectory and a trace, as well as a static fixture - Andreas Ruby

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

STRASBOURG TRAM TERMINUS

The notion of the cars as being ephemeral and constantly changing elements on the site is manifested as a magnetic field of white lines on the black tarmac.

- Andreas Ruby

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

STRASBOURG TRAM TERMINUS

The specially articulated transition between open landscape and public interior space is designed to evoke a new idea of artificial nature that blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial environments and thus improves the quality of civic life in Strasbourg.

- Andreas Ruby

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

STRASBOURG TRAM TERMINUS

It is a territorial graffiti that combines the field-like inscription of the surface in Walter de Marias Lightning Field with the physical treatment of territory in Michael Heizers Double Negative and the diagrammatic optics of the asphalt ground in Ed Ruschas aerial photographs of L.A. parking lots. Its a landscape ready for takeoff - Andreas Ruby

MAXXI / 2009

MAXXI
The city flows inwards while the project flows outwards. Pio Baldi She calls the project 'a field more than an object... Rowan Moore

MAXXI / 2009

MAXXI
The design generates what Hadid calls 'confluence, interference and turbulence', and there is no single route through the building. There are loops and dead ends, some of which seem intended, others not

Rowan Moore

MAXXI / 2009

MAXXI
The premise of the architectural design promotes a disinheriting of the object oriented gallery space. Instead, the notion of a drift takes on an embodied form.

- Patrik Schumacher

MAXXI / 2009

MAXXI
Merging the weightlessness of planetary architecture with the grounds gravitational downforce, this space invokes the heavy hovering so eloquently pictured in countless science-fiction movies.

Andreas Ruby

MAXXI / 2009

CONCLUSION
With the rise of relativism and scientific achievement, society has fewer concrete definitions of its existence and its origins. Through the application of field space, Hadid seeks to remind visitors of their place within a placein other words, the origins of their identity in the context of a vast and expanding universe.