zaha hadid maxxi gallery Flashcards

Question

colours of interior

Answer 1

*Warm greys of concrete combined with silvery greys of the metal flooring. This then juxtaposes the blacks and the whites.

Answer 2

*A glass roof floods the spaces with natural light, filtered between the roof trusses. These latter elements reinforce the linearity of the spatial system and assist the articulation of the various directions and overlappings of the gallery spaces.

Answer 3

she has been categorised as a major figure in architectural Deconstructivism: -gives the appearance of a fragmentation of a constructed building. *Characterised by an absence of harmony, continuity or symmetry. *A sense of unpredictability and controlled chaos. FEATURES *Asymmetrical and Irregular fenestration -The building is a composition of bending oblong tubes, overlapping, intersecting and piling over each other. -curved sidewalls are juxtaposed by irregular geometries and Hard angles on exterior -Entering the atrium, the main elements of the project are evident: concrete curved walls, suspended black staircases, -Entire interior space is a contrast between wonderful curvilinear ribbons and strict rectilinear geometries.

Answer 4

*Entire interior space is a contrast between wonderful curvilinear ribbons and strict rectilinear geometries. *These rectilinear geometries exist in the walls with the blocks of concrete, in the stairs, and in the concrete beams – that almost read as blades along the ceiling.

Answer 5

-lit by white light underneath -They bend, but they also double back, creating sharp angles. -Inspired by Corbusier with the ramps and sloping floor encouraging movement throughout the building use of ramps to create flowing movement

Answer 6

*It is about spectacle, display, seeing and being seen. It has something in common with a Baroque church, where the art is not always the centre of attention, and some of it may not be very good, but the totality is what counts.

Answer 7

Influence clearly drawn from Modernism (Le Corbusier), Constructivism, and even the work of early 20th century painters such as Malevich.

Answer 8

“a new fluid kind of spatiality of multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry, designed to embody the chaotic fluidity of modern life”. (Zaha Hadid)

Answer 9

*It is sculptural, reflecting the building’s function as an Art Gallery

Answer 10

*Elevated (‘floating’) *A sense of weightlessness, which is remarkable considering that it is an almost unbroken slab of concrete.

Answer 11

*Emphasis on public space – no steps that raise the building: Civic and open FEATURES -A large public square in front of the museum designed to host art works and live events. -no steps that raise to the building -A huge overhang creates a shaded space at the entrance, a much-warped version of a classical portico, such as the Pantheon perhaps -A pedestrian walkway follows the outline of the building

Answer 12

-The façade is made up of rows of metallic columns that remind us of Bernini’s piazza of St Peter’s basilica -A huge overhang creates a shaded space at the entrance, a much-warped version of a classical portico, such as the Pantheon perhaps

Answer 13

*Resembles a piece of massive transport infrastructure.

Answer 14

-3 layers -use of concrete: *The use of concrete is significant as a material that the ancient Romans perfected it and used it to shape space. Hadid is thus the inheritor of that tradition. * Arches are not used in the construction (another Roman invention), as such, but it has a sophisticated curvilinear structure made possible only by the combination of concrete and the invention of the arch by the Romans. And we do see arched openings in the walls of the atrium -classical references -in keeping with modern and horizontal enphasis of the flaminio neighbourhood -fragments of the origional barracks on the site remain

Answer 15

“I see the MAXXI as an immersive urban environment for the exchange of ideas, feeding the cultural vitality of the city.” (Zaha Hadid)

Answer 16

The site of the new museum was that of a disused military compound, the former Caserma Montello. The MAXXI design addresses the question of its urban context by maintaining an indexicality to the former army barracks. In this way the centre is more like a second skin to the site. Some fragments of the original barracks remain, part engulfed by the new structure.

Answer 17

Even before completion, the project of the MAXXI was subject to criticism, both for its location which was considered marginal and too far from the city centre, and for its form, judged self-referential and inappropriate for a museum, although admittedly fascinating.