Zaha Hadid, London
The exhibition presents the latest buildings and designs by Iraq-born architect Zaha Hadid. Thirteen projects are shown using plans, drawings, sketches, photos and models. The exhibition focuses in particular on three museum projects: the latest state of planning for the Science Center in Wolfsburg, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Center of Contemporary Art and Architecture in Rome. In addition to your visionary designs, your most famous realised projects include the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, the Landesgartenschau in Weil or the Mind Zone in the Millennium Dome in London. In Wolfsburg, Zaha Hadid's Science Center, an interactive museum for science, is currently under construction. Along the station, the project completes the northern edge of the city centre and forms a new link to the VW Autostadt as the topographical endpoint of important cultural buildings by Aalto, Schweger and Scharoun. Zaha Hadid's building appears to the viewer as an enigmatic object that arouses curiosity and the desire to discover. One enters the museum through cone-shaped structures, which are assigned various functions and also serve as supports. They carry the main weight of the exhibition rooms and create transparency by allowing numerous ground-level paths through the artificial landscape within the building complex. In this way, a large volume is supported and structured by means of funnel-shaped projections and indents. One of the craters becomes the main entrance, another one the auditorium, others merge into a large exhibition bubble. Inside the exhibition area a strange and yet coherent crater landscape is thus created. Visitors will be able to see into and about the exhibitions from everywhere. The public path of the bridge is drawn through the interior of the building as a kind of wormhole, so that interior and exterior space interpenetrate each other. In keeping with the architectural concept, the choice of materials also follows the strategy of alienation.
The architectural office Zaha Hadids works with AutoCad LT, AutoCAD 2000 and 3D Studio Viz. As with other projects, Autodesk software is used for the project in Wolfsburg.
Welcome
Kristin Feireiss Berlin/Rotterdam
Tony Andrews Direktor des British Council
Philip Dodd Direktor ICA, London
Michael
Mönninger Leitender Redakteur 'Die Welt'
Frau Ingrid Eckel Oberbürgermeisterin der Stadt Wolfsburg.
