Zaha Hadid e as críticas

Toda arte é construída por pessoas. Muitos são seguidores de tudo aquilo já observado e registrado. Outros seres humanos não, possuem um dom genial em alguma determinada área, são os mestres. É comum o Revirando a Teoria mencionar a importância e os feitos dos mestres. Entretanto, uma investigação mais cuidadosa sobre o mundo da arquitetura pode nos revelar uma faceta estranha, ou até mesmo vulgar, daqueles que constituem esse universo - os arquitetos.

Não é raro encontrar críticas ferrenhas até mesmo aos mais criativos no assunto, como a conhecida iraquiana Zaha Hadid. E olha que esse blog adora criticar tudo, mas criticar essa mulher é o mesmo que um escritor falar mal do Guimarães Rosa, ou um pintor criticar o Salvador Dali, ou um violonista criticar o Yamandú. Pegou?

Sendo assim, o Revirando a Teoria resolveu postar mais três projetos recentes da mulher. Em suma, "See for yourself!!"

1) Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi

The Performing Arts Center will be part of a multi-billion dollar cultural district with other buildings by Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, and Tadao Ando. In her own words, Zaha Hadid describes the structure as a “biological analogy” whose primary components (branches, stems, fruits, and leaves) are then “transformed from these abstract diagrams into architectonic design.” We can only hope that such poetic biomimicry will be translated into green functions, materials, and technologies as well.

2) Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

The museums sculptural volume is designed along Zaha Hadid’s characteristic conceptual terms of fluidity, velocity and lightness. The building appears like a mystical object floating above the extensive artificial landscape strip, seemingly defying gravity by exposing dramatic undercuts towards the surrounding entrance plazas. Large activated green fields flow around the museums sculptural mass, underlining its enigmatic presence with curvilinear lines echoing the elongated contours of the building. Contrasting with the vertical business district skyline it is a manifestation of Vilnius’ new cultural significance.

A glossy metallic building envelope registers the underlying main programmatic units which are articulated as inlays within the compact overall form. The sub volumes are expressed through folds and protrusions in the facades modulation, creating multiple ways of reading the building as a whole that is constituted by its integral parts. These parts reflect the various institutions and bodies that are combined within the museum, such as the Hermitage, the Guggenheim as well as the city of Vilnius. In the interior a canyon like air space allows for architecturally refined communication and circulation spaces mirroring the Fluxus spirit of informality and vivacity surrounding art.

Video do Guggenheim Hermitage Museum na Lituânia:


3) Civil Court in Madrid

The building will become a significant focal point in the masterplan for the city’s Campus de la Justicia area. It is of course the intelligent façade that caught our eye with this design. Made of metallic panels, this double-ventilated envelope is a dynamic, moving component that will respond to the environment by opening and closing. We only have an abstract understanding based on the architect’s website, but it sounds like heating, cooling and ventilation will all be moderated and control through this intelligent façade. On the roof, these metal panels will include integrate photovoltaic cells.

The proposed 74,500 square meter (~800,000 square foot) building features a spiraling semi-circular atrium that overlooks an interior public courtyard. This space is meant to draw visitors and connect the building with the surrounding campus. The atrium also brings natural light down through the building and into court rooms.

The project is slated for completion within two years and, as with all of Hadid's extreme design, we definitely plan to follow the progress and check it out in its final form. Always interesting and thought provoking (both good and bad), there is something about the work of this architect that just keeps her in our sights. It will be interesting to see if her latest design for Madrid takes shape with sustainability in mind.

Video do projeto da Corte Civil de Madrid: