FUTURISTIC ARCHITECTURE by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid has unveiled a few days ago his project for the international artistic and cultural center of Changsha in China. A futuristic architecture for a project where the functions of the buildings fit together.

The architect touches everything, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2004, Zaha Hadid unveiled there is little a mammoth project that began to sprout last October in Changsha, a city of seven million people in southern China. Curves, knots of concrete, three buildings connected by bridges or walks creating, in the words of the architect, an urban experience. A little futuristic.

Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Art Centre Animation from Zaha Hadid Architects on Vimeo.


All-in-One

The international artistic and cultural center of Changsha is an all-in-one to mark the power of the city and its cultural influence. There is a theater of 1,800 seats whose mission is to host the biggest shows. Bars, restaurants, private spaces included. Nerve center of the whole, it is the project and is in the heart of attention. Especially for the purest sound.

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The second area to be served is a contemporary art museum with many exhibition spaces organized around a central atrium with organic curves. The building will also include an outdoor space, taking advantage of the unique location of the site, allowing the outdoor exhibition of sculptures and other creations not fearing the weather.

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Of the three buildings, this is probably the least impressive, but still. This "little theater" or multipurpose room will have 500 seats and will organize cultural events or medium scale banquets, corporate or other seminars.
Zaha Hadid: symbiotic architecture

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Although they are physically separated, the proposed agency Zaha Hadid architecture attempts to reconcile and even nest the various functions / opening hours of the three structures to allow urban and cultural experience / 24 24 Example the theater (and catering) opens at a time when the museum closes, while the last building will be open day and night.

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To wait for the completion of this work. Or watch the video presentation of the project.

Italy Futuristic Architecture

The futuristic architecture refers to two very different types of architecture: Historically it is a style and a thought belonging to the Italian Futurist movement from 1910 until the end of the Mussolini era, but in a more general sense, c is an architectural design from the early twentieth century whose very loose inspiration recalls elements of science fiction or spacecraft without forming a school or a specific thought.

Città Nuova project that will never materialize

The futuristic first took shape at the beginning as an anti-historical architecture and characterized by long horizontal lines suggesting speed, motion and urgency. Technologies, but also violence, are important themes of futurism. The Futurist movement in general is founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who wrote his first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, the movement attracted not only poets, musicians and artists of all kinds but also a significant number of architects. The first manifesto of Futurist architecture is written by Boccioni, but remains unpublished. The group then welcomed Antonio Sant'Elia who, although little built, transcribed the futuristic vision of a bold urban project.

In the 1930s, Angiolo Mazzoni joined the movement and causes it to become an institutional style of Fascist Italy. Its synthesis and classically inspired bombast will form the Fascist Architecture.

Central heat, Florence, Italy

After World War II, Futurism, greatly weakened, is redefined in favor of infatuation towards the space age, the car culture and plastic. For example, there is this tendency in architecture Googies during the 1950s in California. Futurism in this case is not a style but a loose and uninhibited architectural approach, which is why it has been reinterpreted and transformed by generations of architects the following decades in which we find amazing shapes dynamic and highly contrasted lines, and the use of technologically advanced materials.

In the 1980s, the French architect Denis Laming, is one of the actors of this movement and founder of the Neo-Futurism. He designed and built all the buildings Futuroscope who’s Kinemax which is the flagship building.

Lingotto factory, Turin, Italy

In popular literature, futuristic term is often used without precision to describe an architecture that would have the look of the space age as described in works of science fiction. Today it is sometimes confused with the blob architecture.