Zaha Hadid

This week’s precedent study focused on Zaha Hadid's renders for her 520 West 28th Street Residential Flat building and her conceptual design for Beethoven Concert Hall. 

Beethoven Concert hall

520 West Residential Flat building

Starting with the residential flat building, the renders are done as montages, with site context and people. This is a form of post-production visualisation. Her design is interesting and conveyed well through her visuals. The glass facade is rendered well with the external lighting, shadows and reflections. The internal lights are also simple, and sufficient. Her renders are of both day and night and thus give the client a good idea of its potential on the streetscape. 

 In some of her images however, the post production work of adding people and cars, their scale and positioning look a bit off and thus emphasize the fabrication of the image. In my opinion, renders and post production work should look as real as possible and this is what I hope to achieve in my work by the end of the semester.

 Her Beethoven Hall on the other hand takes a different style of visualisation.

 

 Since the submission was for a competition, she took the more conceptual approach, which in my opinion has done well.

 Her images emphasize the play of natural light and shadows.

Since it is shown in each of her renders it can be seen as an important aspect to her design. Her site context image, in my opinion is the best image in this projects gallery. This is because it shows how the internal lights of the building affect and interact with the surroundings. 

Images from her projects have been taken from here

Beethoven Concert Hall : http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/beethoven-concert-hall/#

520 West 28th Street: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/520-west-28th-street/#