PARAMETRIC SPACE – ZAHA HADID & KOLLISION & CAVI & WAHLBERG
DANISH ARCHITECTURE CENTER
PARAMETRIC SPACE – ZAHA HADID & KOLLISION & CAVI & WAHLBERG
DANISH ARCHITECTURE CENTER
June 29, 2013 - September 29,2013
Zaha Hadid Architects worked together with design offices Kollision, CAVI and Wahlberg to create the interactive installation ‘Parametric Space’ for the exhibition ‘Zaha Hadid – World
Architecture‘, which is on view at the Danish Architecture Centre
through September 29, 2013. The installation is a fully parametric space that
reacts to the visitors’ movements by changing shape and expression.
At first glance, ‘Parametric Space’ is a dark rectangular volume – four
walls, floor and ceiling. However, in the presence of a visitor, what appears
to be a normal flat ceiling reveals itself as a glowing and flexible membrane
that physically moves down into a funnel that protrudes out towards the floor.
The closer a visitor gets to the funnel, the further it moves down; by stepping
back the membrane will retract back into the ceiling.
In addition to changing its shape, the membrane is also brought to life
by thousands of dynamic light particles that inhabit the surface and react to
the membrane’s movements. This creates an almost dreamy, yet tangible
experience related to the architectural language that Zaha Hadid is known for.
TECHNICAL SETUP
The installation is brought to life by two laser scanner sensors that
continuously gather information about visitors’ positions in the space. The
positions are used for calculating the heights of the four actuators pushing
and pulling cylindrical volumes on the topside of the membrane. The cylinders
are equipped with RGB light sources that express the cylinder height by color
and intensity, while four projectors built into the floor project the light
particles onto the membrane. These particles are spatially calculated on a
virtual 3D surface of the approximate membrane shape.
CREDITS
The exhibition was developed by Zaha Hadid Architects in collaboration
with the Danish Architecture Centre, supported by Realdania and Kvadrat. Kollision managed the design process and
the technical project development of Parametric Space together with Zaha Hadid
Architects; CAVI programmed the infrastructure and the parametric actuator and
lighting control; Wahlberg constructed the membrane installation together with
the actuator and the light source integration; and Zaha Hadid Architects
developed the real-time graphics projected onto the membrane.
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ZAHA HADID
Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded
the Pritzker Architecture Prize ( considered to be the Nobel Prize of
architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for both her theoretical and
academic work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over
thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated
fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid’ s interest lies in the
rigorous interface between architecture, landscape and geology as her practice
integrates natural topography and human – made systems , leading to
experimentation with cutting – edge Technologies. Such a process often results
in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.
EDUCATION
Hadid studied architecture at he Architectural Association
from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.
TEACHING
She became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan
Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia
Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she
has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harward
University; The Sullivan Chair at the University Illinois, School of
Architecture, Chicago; guest professorsships at the Hochschule für Bildende
Künste in Hamburg; The Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters
Studio at Columbia University, Newyork. In addition, she was made Honorary
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American
Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is
currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and
was the Eero saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut.
AWARDS
Zaha Hadid’ s work of the past 30 years was the subject of
critically – acclaimed retrospective exhibitions at New York’ s Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London Design museum in 2007 and the Palazzo della
Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009. Her recently completed projects include the
MAXXI Museum in Rome; which won the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’ s
outstanding contribution to the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’ s outstanding
contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by
the most world’ s most respected institutions. She received the prestigious ‘
Praemium Imperiale ’ from the Japan Art Association in 2009, and in 2010, the
Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other recent
awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘ Artist for Peace ‘ at a
ceremony in their Paris headquarters last year. Also in 2010, the Republic of
France named Hadid as ‘ Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in
recognition of her services to architecture, and TIME magazine included her in
their 2010 list of the ‘ 100 most Influential People in the World ‘. This years
‘ Time 100 ‘ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artist and
Hereos – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.
ZHA PROJECTS:
Zaha has played a pivotal role in a great many Zaha Hadid
Architects projects over the past 30 years. The Maxxi National Museum of 21 st
Century Arts in Rome, Italy; the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany and
the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany are excellent demonstrations of
Hadid’ s quest for complex, fluid space. Previous seminal buildings such as the
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinati, USA, have also been hailed
as architecture that transforms our vision of the future with new spatial
concepts and bold, visionary forms.
Currently Hadid is working on a multitude of projects
worldwide including: The London Aquatics Centre fort he 2012 Olympic Games;
High – Speed Train Stations in Naples and Durango; The CMA CGM Headquarters
tower in Marseille; The Fiera di Milano masterplan and tower as well as major
master planning projects in Beijing, Bilboa, Istanbul and Singapore. In the
Middle East, Hadid’ s portfolio includes national cultural and research centres
in Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, as well as
the new Central Bank of Iraq.
