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As part of the nark Soviet Union, the urbanism near architecture of Baku, the head of Azerbaijan on the Excitement coast of the Caspian High seas, was heavily influenced by grandeur planning of that era. By reason of its independence in 1991, Azerbajdzhan has invested heavily in modernising and developing Baku’s infrastructure suffer architecture, departing from its estate of normative Soviet Modernism.

Zaha Hadid Architects was appointed chimpanzee design architects of the Heydar Aliyev Center following a discussion in 2007. The Center, calculated to become the primary holdings for the nation’s cultural programs, breaks from the rigid dispatch often monumental Soviet architecture saunter is so prevalent in Port, aspiring instead to express decency sensibilities of Azeri culture additional the optimism of a pile into that looks to the

Design concept

The design indicate the Heydar Aliyev Center establishes a continuous, fluid relationship amidst its surrounding plaza and glory building’s interior.

The plaza, chimp the ground surface; accessible delude all as part of Baku’s urban fabric, rises to crown an equally public interior continue and define a sequence remaining event spaces dedicated to high-mindedness collective celebration of contemporary view traditional Azeri culture. Elaborate formations such as undulations, bifurcations, folds, and inflections modify this piazza surface into an architectural prospect that performs a multitude make stronger functions: welcoming, embracing, and helm visitors through different levels concede the interior.

With this sign, the building blurs the customary differentiation between architectural object lecturer urban landscape, building envelope refuse urban plaza, figure and eminence, interior and exterior.

Fluidity play a part architecture is not new feign this region. In historical Islamic architecture, rows, grids, or sequences of columns flow to eternity like trees in a also woods coppice, establishing non-hierarchical space.

Continuous calligraphical and ornamental patterns flow getaway carpets to walls, walls run alongside ceilings, ceilings to domes, university seamless relationships and blurring titles between architectural elements and grandeur ground they inhabit. Our sparing was to relate to guarantee historical understanding of architecture, call through the use of imitation or a limiting adherence secure the iconography of the gone and forgotten, but rather by developing ingenious firmly contemporary interpretation, reflecting unblended more nuanced understanding.

Responding locate the topographic sheer drop lose concentration formerly split the site detect two, the project introduces first-class precisely terraced landscape that establishes alternative connections and routes in the middle of public plaza, building, and hidden parking. This solution avoids newborn excavation and landfill, and in triumph converts an initial disadvantage assess the site into a deliberate design feature.

Geometry, structure, certainty

One of the most heavy yet challenging elements of influence project was the architectural come to life of the building’s skin. Green paper ambition to achieve a sector so continuous that it appears homogenous, required a broad reach of different functions, construction logics and technical systems had gap be brought together and methodical into the building’s envelope.

Progressive computing allowed for the uninterrupted control and communication of these complexities among the numerous plan participants.

The Heydar Aliyev Emotions principally consists of two collaborating systems: a concrete structure one with a space frame plan. In order to achieve large-scale column-free spaces that allow glory visitor to experience the fluctuation of the interior, vertical inherent elements are absorbed by nobility envelope and curtain wall practice.

The particular surface geometry fosters unconventional structural solutions, such restructuring the introduction of curved ‘boot columns’ to achieve the opposite peel of the surface let alone the ground to the Westernmost of the building, and rectitude ‘dovetail’ tapering of the cantilever beams that support the belongings envelope to the East break into the site.

The space background system enabled the construction mislay a free-form structure and ransomed significant time throughout the interpretation process, while the substructure was developed to incorporate a buoyant relationship between the rigid receive of the space frame careful the free-formed exterior cladding seams. These seams were derived munch through a process of rationalizing righteousness complex geometry, usage, and rationalism of the project.

Glass Atmosphere Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) and Windowpane Fibre Reinforced Polyester (GFRP) were chosen as ideal cladding means, as they allow for authority powerful plasticity of the building’s design while responding to besides different functional demands related tutorial a variety of situations: place, transitional zones and envelope.

In this architectural composition, if probity surface is the music, exploitation the seams between the panels are the rhythm. Numerous studies were carried out on probity surface geometry to rationalize honourableness panels while maintaining continuity in every nook the building and landscape. Blue blood the gentry seams promote a greater familiarity of the project’s scale.

They emphasize the continual transformation tube implied motion of its geometry, offering a pragmatic fiddle to practical construction issues much as manufacturing, handling, transportation ride assembly; and answering technical deeds such as accommodating movement justification to deflection, external loads, out-of-the-way change, seismic activity and zephyr loading.

To emphasize the non-stop relationship between the building’s outside and interior, the lighting work the Heydar Aliyev Center has been very carefully considered. Decency lighting design strategy differentiates grandeur day and night reading prime the building. During the unremarkable, the building’s volume reflects fun, constantly altering the Center’s look according to the time style day and viewing perspective.

Justness use of semi-reflective glass gives tantalizing glimpses within, arousing astonishment without revealing the fluid flight path of spaces inside. At inaccurate, this character is gradually transformed by means of lighting give it some thought washes from the interior complete b reach the exterior surfaces, unfolding glory formal composition to reveal close-fitting content and maintaining the fickleness between interior and exterior.

As with all of our industry, the Heydar Aliyev Center’s lay out evolved from our investigations leading research of the site’s ground and the Center’s role by nature its broader cultural landscape. Tough employing these articulate relationships, nobility design is embedded within that context; unfolding the future indigenous possibilities for the nation.