origins of field space

ORIGINS OF FIELD SPACEAn Exploration of Zaha Hadid’s Inspiration

Tim Tocci / Prof. Rihab Bagnole /

ARTH 701: Contemporary Art / 11.11.2010

BIO 1950 BORN IN BAGHDAD

1963 BA’ATH 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

Analogies from tectonic faults, geological systems, and more recently, organic systems (Schumacher 29)

More primal systems > CosmologyQuantum Mechanics / Special Relativity / General Relativity

THESIS

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre / 2007-2012

“Fragmentation and flow come together in the idea of the field.” - Hadid

WHAT IS A FIELD?

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

“...spaces of a geometry that seem more related to quantum mechanics than to Euclid.”- Peter Noever

IT’S NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012IT’S NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012IT’S NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012IT’S NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012IT’S NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012IT’S NOT A GRID

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

2007-2012

WHAT IS SPACE?

Nordpark Railway / 2007

“The resultant graphic space greatly anticipates the later...concepts of fieldand 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

WHAT IS SPACE?

Lotus / Installation for Venice Exhibit 2010

“The dynamism in Hadid’s work develops through the conventional signs of planes, but describes the planes of future three-dimensional bodies. At a certain moment...Hadid’s work...explodes in the three-dimensional 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

“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

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

“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

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

“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

STRASBOURG TRAM TERMINUS

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

“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

Strasbourg Tram Terminus / 2001

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

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

MAXXI

MAXXI / 2009

“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

MAXXI / 2009

“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

MAXXI / 2009

“Merging the weightlessness of planetary architecture with the ground’s gravitational downforce, this space invokes the ‘heavy hovering’ so eloquently pictured in countless science-fiction movies.” – Andreas Ruby

MAXXI

MAXXI / 2009

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 place—in other words, the origins of their identity in the context of a vast and expanding universe.

CONCLUSION

MAXXI / 2009