China: Handwriting of Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid together with a group of architects has radically changed the China’s skyline over the last years. Their modernizations, which have flooded China, feature incredible conceptual integrity. The building’s skylines and the shape looks like a new sign by Zaha, we feel to see something different from the usual drawing used like “Hadid – brand”. The magnificent buildings amaze with their appearance and innovative engineering solutions used in their design.

Hadid first visited China more than 30 years ago and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been working throughout the country for more than a decade. The Guangzhou Opera House opened in 2010, and ZHA is currently building seminal projects in China’s dynamic and historic cities. As the world’s largest and fastest-growing emerging economy, China is developing increasingly creative talent and sophisticated technologies and each of ZHA’s collaborations throughout the country demonstrate the highest levels of partnership and cooperation; creating innovative projects that engage with their environment and express the remarkable ambition and future China will play on a global stage.

Parametric design is an emerging concept of design process in which the parameters are interconnected as a system. One parameter’s change affects the whole network and causes global influence. Parametric design creates systematic, adaptive variation, continuous differentiation, and dynamic figuration from the scale of urbanism to the scale of architecture, interior and furniture.

Galaxy Soho
Five continuous, flowing volumes coalesce to create an internal world of continuous open spaces within Galaxy Soho – a new office, retail entertainment complex devoid of corners or abrupt transitions – a reinventing of the classical Chinese courtyard which generates an immersive, enveloping experience at the heart of Beijing. That is an integral part of the living city, inspired by the grand scale of Beijing.

Its architecture is a composition of four continuous, flowing volumes that are set apart, fused or linked by stretched bridges. These volumes adapt to each other in all directions, generating a panoramic architecture without corners or abrupt transitions that break the fluidity of its formal composition.

The great interior courts of the project are a reflection of traditional Chinese architecture where courtyards create an internal world of continuous open spaces. Here, the architecture is no longer composed of rigid blocks, but instead comprised of volumes which coalesce to create a world of continuous mutual adaptation and fluid movement between each building. Shifting plateaus within the design impact upon each other to generate a deep sense of immersion and envelopment. As users enter deeper into the building, they discover intimate spaces that follow the same coherent formal logic of continuous curve linearity.

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