When almost a decade of the death of, in March 2016, its study continues to multiply the wake of a designer as unique and recognizable as discussed and controversial. What indicates that decision?
In an interview published in the country, his former partner, the German, who replaced the architect Anglo-Iraquí under the command of the office, explained the difficulties-at the same time the need-to maintain the name of the study linked to it. The family claimed the name. The company needed it to associate it with its reputation. That situation could also explain the difficulty of changing the style of an architectural seal.
How to decide what would have been the natural evolution of one of the boldest designers in the world without being able to consult it? The most cautious answer can also be the poorest. It consists in avoiding that decision and perpetuating a formal language that does not seem to dialogue with a planet that, a decade later, other questions are asked and has different energy, social, social and urban priorities. Thus, beyond a spectacular facade or an iconic volume, what is left of the limits tried to break Hadid? Were they only aesthetics? Technicians? Materials?
In the last and prolific decade, the architect’s study seems to have displayed a decision: the lack of intention to change. And that decision to increase production altering the answer entails risks.
It is true that the new Museum of Science and Technology, inaugurated this month in (China) assumes a certain need for change. But, at the same time, he strives to claim the. Thus, from afar, the property remembers the sculptural and iconic language of the architect and her team. As all its projects marks the place, contrasts with the existing architecture, it aspires to have a monumental character and automatically becomes an icon.
However, on this occasion, already a difference from many previous projects, the sculpture is allowed to embrace, timidly, by nature. As if I wanted to dialogue. As babbling, he understands that such isolated presence cannot be imposed.
Here, the solidity of the spherical volume retracts in a series of terraces overlooking the park. These exteriors expand the galleries of the museum, the central atrium, and amplify the public space of the property offering views about the city and welcoming passive air conditioning strategies, which seek to stop the sunty, air the building and save energy in a subtropical climate like Shenzhen’s.
How sustainable can it be a stainless steel facade? The architects explain that the facade panels are ventilated thanks to an inner cavity. The panelado system incorporates photovoltaic plates on the deck. And inco color technology controls the oxidation of these panels with a self -limp system based on. These steel panels vary thus between blue and dark gray because the color becomes a response to sunny. From the study they explain that changes in the facade give dynamism to the building, but also respond to energy issues and the ambition to achieve the most difficult energy certificate in China ,.
The museum is built with 389 tons of recycled materials, recycles gray waters and recovers rain. “The museum wants to be a tourist destination in a metropolitan area of more than 100 million people,” the architects indicate. They also explain that they seek to change the way to build, making energy sustainable icons.
However, it is lawful to wonder not if you can change the study but rather how much the Hadid seal can be altered until it stops being hadid. The house brand handles curves and large budgets. Thus, deployed in the announcement of other future projects – as the housing complex in the – strength an opening on terraces that pierce the traditional closed facades of Hadid.
The result recalls, of course, in Caro, the great urbanizations of the Spanish coast. Emirates trust their population by 55% by 2050. They also expect to receive 3.5 million visitors a year. These apartments are designed for them. They are signed by the study of a missing architect, Zaha Hadid, who, opening the volumes on terraces, is beginning to disappear from his own architectural brand.
