Zaha Hadid Architects Design Project HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER

HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER

Project HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER.

Architect Zaha Hadid Architects.

Design Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher with Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu.

Project Architect Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu

Project Team Sara Sheikh Akbari, Shiqi Li, Phil Soo Kim, Marc Boles, Yelda Gin, Liat Muller, Deniz Manisali, Lillie Liu, Jose Lemos, Simone Fuchs, Jose Ramon Tramoyeres, Yu Du, Tahmina Parvin, Erhan Patat, Fadi Mansour, Jaime Bartolome, Josef Glas, Michael Grau, Deepti Zachariah, Ceyhun Baskin, Daniel Widrig, Special thanks to Charles Walker.

HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER

Main Contractor and Architect of Record DiA Holding

Consultants Tuncel Engineering, AKT (Structure), GMD Project (Mechanical), HB Engineering (Electrical), Werner Sobek (Façade), Etik Fire Consultancy (Fire), Mezzo Stüdyo (Acoustic), Enar Engineering (Geotechnical), Sigal (Infrastructure), MBLD (Lighting), Subcontractors and manufacturers, MERO (Steel Space Frame System) + Bilim Makina (Installation of Space Frame System), Doka (Formwork), Arabian Profile (External Cladding Panels / GRC & GRP), Lindner (Internal Skin Cladding), Sanset İkoor (Auditorium Wooden Cladding), Quinette (Auditorium Seats), Zumtobel (Lighting Fixtures), Baswa (Special Acoustic Ceilings) + Astas (Installation of Ceilings), Solarlux (Multipurpose Hall Façade Door), Bolidt (Polyurethane Floor Finish), Kone Elevators + Ikma (Installation of Elevators), MM Mühendisler Mermer (Marble Cladding Works), HRN Dizayn (Landscape LED Installation), Thyssen Group (Escalator), Remak Makina (Fire Doors and Concrete-Cladded Doors), Tema (Gypsum Panel Works), MIM Mühendislik (Structural Steel), Elekon Enerji Sistemleri (Main Building Lighting Control System), NIS Epoksi Kaplama Sistemleri (Epoxy Works), Light Projects Group (Lighting Fixtures), Limit Insaat (External Skin Insulations and Structure).

Zaha Hadid Architects Design HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER

HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER FACTS AND FIGURES

Project name Heydar Aliyev Center 
Location Baku, Azerbaijan

Start of project September 2007

Completion May 10, 2012
Client The Republic of Azerbaijan
Program Mixed-use cultural center
Procurement Design-build
Total floor area 101,801 m2
Site area 111,292 m2
Auditorium capacity 1,000
Unique fiberglass reinforced polyester panels 13,000 (40,000 m2)

HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER

Fiberglass reinforced concrete panels 3,150 (10,000 m2) GRC panels
Fiberglass reinforced polyester panel production Max 70 unique panels per day
Museum space frame 12,569 Members / 3,266 Nodes
Auditorium space frame 17,269 Members /4,513 Nodes
Total surface space frame area approx. 33,000 m2
Internal skin fixing plates 70,000
Surface area of inner skin Over 22,000 m2
Metal deck roof purlins at tender stage 3,607—total length 10,092m
Metal roof deck trays at tender stage 3,936—total area 26,853 m2 Roof area 39,000 m2

Zaha Hadid Architects Design HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER

Zaha Hadid Architects Design Auditorium

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Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center / Zaha Hadid

Project  HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER Designer By Architect, Zaha Hadid . 

Zaha Hadid Design project of Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, Project Architect :Saffet kaya bekiroglu

photography: helene binet, 

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

As part of the former Soviet Union, the urbanism and architecture of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on the Western coast of the Caspian Sea, was heavily influenced by the planning of that era. Since its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan has invested heavily in modernising and developing Baku’s infrastructure and architecture, departing from its legacy of normative Soviet Modernism.

Zaha Hadid Architects was appointed as design architects of the Heydar Aliyev Center following a competition in 2007. The Center, designed to become the primary building for the nation’s cultural programs, breaks from the rigid and often monumental Soviet architecture that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities of Azeri culture and the optimism of a nation that looks to the future.

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• Design concept / Zaha Hadid:

The design of the Heydar Aliyev Center establishes a continuous, fluid relationship between its surrounding plaza and the building’s interior. The plaza, as the ground surface; accessible to all as part of Baku’s urban fabric, rises to envelop an equally public interior space and define a sequence of event spaces dedicated to the collective celebration of contemporary and traditional Azeri culture. Elaborate formations such as undulations, bifurcations, folds, and inflections modify this plaza surface into an architectural landscape that performs a multitude of functions: welcoming, embracing, and directing visitors through different levels of the interior. With this gesture, the building blurs the conventional differentiation between architectural object and urban landscape, building envelope and urban plaza, figure and ground, interior and exterior.

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Fluidity in architecture is not new to this region. In historical Islamic architecture, rows, grids, or sequences of columns flow to infinity like trees in a forest, establishing non-hierarchical space. Continuous calligraphic and ornamental patterns flow from carpets to walls, walls to ceilings, ceilings to domes, establishing seamless relationships and blurring distinctions between architectural elements and the ground they inhabit. Our intention was to relate to that historical understanding of architecture, not through the use of mimicry or a limiting adherence to the iconography of the past, but rather by developing a firmly contemporary interpretation, reflecting a more nuanced understanding.

Responding to the topographic sheer drop that formerly split the site in two, the project introduces a precisely terraced landscape that establishes alternative connections and routes between public plaza, building, and underground parking. This solution avoids additional excavation and landfill, and successfully converts an initial disadvantage of the site into a key design feature.

Zaha Hadid Design project of Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

• Geometry, structure, materiality :

One of the most critical yet challenging elements of the project was the architectural development of the building’s skin. Our ambition to achieve a surface so continuous that it appears homogenous, required a broad range of different functions, construction logics and technical systems had to be brought together and integrated into the building’s envelope. Advanced computing allowed for the continuous control and communication of these complexities among the numerous project participants.

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

The Heydar Aliyev Center principally consists of two collaborating systems: a concrete structure combined with a space frame system. In order to achieve large-scale column-free spaces that allow the visitor to experience the fluidity of the interior, vertical structural elements are absorbed by the envelope and curtain wall system. The particular surface geometry fosters unconventional structural solutions, such as the introduction of curved ‘boot columns’ to achieve the inverse peel of the surface from the ground to the West of the building, and the ‘dovetail’ tapering of the cantilever beams that support the building envelope to the East of the site

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

The space frame system enabled the construction of a free-form structure and saved significant time throughout the construction process, while the substructure was developed to incorporate a flexible relationship between the rigid grid of the space frame and the free-formed exterior cladding seams. These seams were derived from a process of rationalizing the complex geometry, usage, and aesthetics of the project. Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) and Glass Fibre Reinforced Polyester (GFRP) were chosen as ideal cladding materials, as they allow for the powerful plasticity of the building’s design while responding to very different functional demands related to a variety of situations: plaza, transitional zones and envelope.

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

In this architectural composition, if the surface is the music, then the seams between the panels are the rhythm. Numerous studies were carried out on the surface geometry to rationalize the panels while maintaining continuity throughout the building and landscape. The seams promote a greater understanding of the project’s scale. They emphasize the continual transformation and implied motion of its fluid geometry, offering a pragmatic solution to practical construction issues such as manufacturing, handling, transportation and assembly; and answering technical concerns such as accommodating movement due to deflection, external loads, temperature change, seismic activity and wind loading.

exterior and interior, the lighting of the Heydar Aliyev Center

To emphasize the continuous relationship between the building’s exterior and interior, the lighting of the Heydar Aliyev Center has been very carefully considered. The lighting design strategy differentiates the day and night reading of the building. During the day, the building’s volume reflects light, constantly altering the Center’s appearance according to the time of day and viewing perspective. The use of semi-reflective glass gives tantalizing glimpses within, arousing curiosity without revealing the fluid trajectory of spaces inside. At night, this character is gradually transformed by means of lighting that washes from the interior onto the exterior surfaces, unfolding the formal composition to reveal its content and maintaining the fluidity between interior and exterior.

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

As with all of our work, the Heydar Aliyev Center’s design evolved from our investigations and research of the site’s topography and the Center’s role within its broader cultural landscape. By employing these articulate relationships, the design is embedded within this context; unfolding the future cultural possibilities for the nation.

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Bucheon HEMIL Library / Korean architecture

1st Prize Winner / Korean architecture / Bucheon HEMIL Library

Architecture Competition Annual 2006

\Korean architecture

Bucheon HEMIL Library /Architecture & Engineers Co. Ltd. / Park hyeong bae + E kchitects & Associates / Han Sang bum. Kim yong hwa

site plan

Area district : Central commercial area, 

                    Fire prevention district,

                    District unit planned district.

Function : Culture & Assembly facility, 

               Eoucabonal research & Welfare facility ( same function with project city hall in Icheon )

Site area : 1,000,60m2 

Building area : 729.53m2 

Total floor area : 3,990.06m2 

Landscaped area : 200.97m2 

Building coverage ratio: 72.91% 

Floor area ratio : 314.60% 

Stories : B1. 5FL 

Structure : Reinforced concrete 

Parking capacity : 21 cars 

Ext. finish : Curtain wall, Aluminium louver, Ceramic panel 

Circumference situation

Arrangement concept I

Arrangement concept 2

Arrangement concept 3

 Beginning Point of Human Network in City... 

 The project's site is located at a commercial town of Wonmigu, Bucheon City which shows typical urban scenes in which apartments are mixed whth shops. The site's small area makes us consider openness .In addition, a 35m road is close to a buffer zone. It is fortunate at parks around the site enables people to have a good view .

Frist floor plan

Second floor plan

Fifth floor plan

Zoning & Division, Connection & Flow, Change & Adaptation 
The mass is arranged to ensure open spaces because the site is small compared with accepted programs. Therefore, The main entrance heads for a road on the northeast side of the site in order to maximize openness. In addition, an indoor atrium is planned by ensuring a square and dividing the mass. It introduces daylight and sky to the building which is likely to stuffy due to the narrow site. Accordingly, juveniles as well as the disabled will enjoy calmn and silence. 

front elevation

left elevation

Space Plan to Harmonize Visual Angle With Light 
Corridors and rooms are arranged around the indoor atrium and decks between the spaces are used to link the inside with the outside. A roof garden plays the same role as a neighborhood park. The project is designed mainly for both the visually disabled and the adolescent. Therefore, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors contain spaces for the disabled owing to easy accessibility, while the 4th and 5th floors include spaces for the adolescent. A general data room, arranged on the 5th floors, has skylights in order to maintain comfortable condition. A sunken garden enhances daylight and ventilation of underground spaces. In addition, water spaces including an artificial waterfall at an entrance court provide visual and auditory motives. 

section 1

section 2

Image as Open Community 
Curtain walls are applied to the elevation for a transparent and open image. Vertical louvers are used to avoid a dry image and realize an intimate and dynamic image. In addition, the atrium is expected to integrate
spaces vertically, get rid of a barrier between the disabled and the nondisabled and realize one human network

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Architecture Project City Hall In Icheon / Korean architecture

Icheon city hall, assembly government builidng, Culture & art hall1st Prize Winner - Architectural Competition Annual 2006 

Icheon city hall, korea

Area district : Fist-rate general residential area 

Function : Public official facility, Culture & Assembly facility 

Site area : 65.155d 

Building area : 10.632.85m² 

Total floor area : 32,421.73m² 

Landscaped area : 21,742.47m² 

Building coverage ratio : 16.32% 

Floor area ratio : 33.44% 

Stories : City hall budding - B1, 9FL 

          Assembly government building - 3FL 

          Culture Art hall - 52, 3FL 

Structure : Renforced concrete 

Parking capacity : 750 cars 

Ext. finish : City hall building - Aluminium complex panel. Colored pair glass Assembly government building - Granite, Colored pair glass Culture • Art hall - Aluminium complex panel, Colored pair glass. Outside insulation system 

site plan

The design had to resolve three problems as follow: First, we had to create a new suffice that responds to the radically changing city: Second, we were subject to design a culture and art center as a center of regional culture: Third, these two facilities should create a coherent complex within one site. 

The site found at the mouth of the new downtown developed along lateral urban axis has been given a symbolic stature as an intersection between the city and the nature. As the site is surrounded by regional favorite tourist attractions and major cultural facilities, it also can be said of a part of urban cultural center. 

Perspective of  Korean architecture

Perspective of  Korean architecture

Perspective of  Korean architecture

The major facilities were placed in divided zones by a line parallel to the street flardng the front as one zone contains si-office wing and the other, culture and art center. We tried to solve the problem of discordance between cultural and administrative facilities which have no common program by connecting the two with a deck through external garden. '2' shaped circulative path that wraps around the site was taken into three-dimensional expansion as the path adapted to natural landform while meeting the facilities in various points of different levels. The design of the circulation within the site assumed shared path regardless of respective facility's frequency and volume of visitors for organic weaving of the complex flows.

Elevation

Section

In conjunction with the building arrangement, program organization within each building followed the path of independence in interconnection' . Si-office wing shaped to project the energy of dashing forward contains two separate zones: the grand theater connected to the external deck was separat-ed from the cafeteria stacked with office zone on the top and public services on the bottom. Culture and Art Center designed to represent Icheon Baekja (indigenous traditional pottery) followed the arrangement in grand theater, medium theater and small theater specific to each theater s peak time and usage frequency. 

New construction of si-office means that city is facing new changes or preparing another leap-forward. In Icheon city at the point of transforming into a city of cutting-edge technology and cultural center, I wish the building becomes a point of departure for city's advancement towards the ideal future as a place where culture meets administration, and as a place filled with gath-ering and experiences. 

first-floor-plan

Second-floor-plan

Third-floor-plan

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Design building of District Court in Jinju Branch, Changwon

Design District Court building in Jinju Branch, Changwon, South Korea

Design District Court building , Changwon

Location : Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea 

Function : Business facility

Site area : 16,018㎡

Bldg. area : 3,016㎡

Total floor area : 13,818㎡

Stories : B1, 6FL

Structure : Reinforced concrete

Finish : T24 Color low-e pair glass, T30 Granite dabbed finish, T4 Aluminium complex panel(ext.), Floor_Granite Rubbing, Wall_Granite flamed, Ceiling_Aluminium(int.

Site paln of District Court

 :Concept Design of building District Court

Concept Design of building District Court

Concept Design of building District Court

Concept Design of building District Court

The court has been symbolized as the focal point of social justice in the midst of change in time. And that may be the result of a flexible legal mind to communicate with contemporary human beings under the wave of changing times. In order to express the legal mind unique to the court, planning was conducted with focus on the following three points. First, it has to escape from the rigid and authoritarian image of a court, and realize a flexible image of communicating with the people as well as maintain the image of a court as the symbol of fairness. Second, it has to include identity of the court by planning the courtroom as the central space of a court. Third, it has to build a court which is unique to Jinju, expressing local sentiment of a city with a tradition of loyalty and integrity. Under the above points, linked with considerations of energy and environment, the core issue of current public building construction, it has to construct a building worthy of the court internally as well as externally.

Design building of District Court in Jinju Branch, Changwon

Site solution of building Design 

Mass concept of building Design

Architecture design of District Court in Changwon

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-Design building Sustainability  :                                                      

Sustainable design

- Plan the courthouse as side corridor type, enabling excellent viewing on both front and rear ends and helping natural lighting and natural ventilation

-Green space network :

Green space network

- Link open spaces via nature and thus overcome level difference of the premises

- Increase usability of open space on the front and reduce interference with apartment buildings on the rear

- Provide multi-floor rest area by three dimensional green space plan

- Realize an eco friendly, green courthouse by systematic composition of indoor and outdoor green spaces

Green space network of court

-Eco-friendly atrium plan :

Eco-friendly atrium plan

- Realize an efficient atrium ventilation system by parallel natural ventilation and forced ventilation

- Separate high-noise court service halls from courtrooms through bridge access

-Elevations  :

-Front elevation :

Front elevation of building District Court.

-Left elevation :

Left elevation of building District Court

: Rear elevation-

Rear elevation of building District Court

: Right elevation-

Right elevation of building District Court

 -Sections :

-Cross section :

Cross section

 -Longitudinal section :

Longitudinal section

-floor plans :

-First floor plan :

First floor plan of District Court Jinju Branch

-Third floor plan :

Third floor plan of District Court Jinju Branch

-Fifth floor plan :

Fifth floor plan of District Court Jinju Branch

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Changwon District Court Jinju Branch

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