Zaha Hadid Vitra Fire Station Painting
The client was rolf fehlbaum of the swiss furniture firm vitra who would become a member of the jury for the prestigious pritzker architecture prize in 2004 the year it was won by hadid.
Zaha hadid vitra fire station painting. Vitra fire station has already turned 23 but it still appears almost untouched by age. Hans ulrich obrist a curator collaborator and longstanding friend describes how hadids method began in her sketchbooks with superfluid drawings. 950 projects 44 countries 400 staff 55 nations welcome to the interactive archive of zaha hadid architects. We work at all scales and in all sectors.
Rather she used the building to define and structure the street on which it faces. We create transformative cultural corporate residential and other spaces that work in synchronicity with their surroundings. It was the road as well as the factory sheds surrounding the site that would inform the rationale of hadids proposal. Photograph by zaha hadid architects.
As envisaged by hadid the vitra fire station would do more than simply exist as an object in space. Zaha hadid revolutionised the language of architecture and transformed the way we think about design. Vitra fire station zaha hadid. The vitra fire station was hadids first built work though she had already made her name as a paper architect on account of her creative and ambitious architectural drawings.
After the major fire in 1981 vitra decided it would be a good idea to have a fire brigade. The iraqi british architect zaha hadid was recognised in 2004 with the renowned pritzker architecture prize from the hyatt foundation. Zaha hadid was commissioned with designing a building for it. Her first ever built project was commissioned by vitra.
Image 6 of 25 from gallery of ad classics. Image courtesy of zaha hadid architects. Although the vitra fire station would ultimately come to serve a different function than it was originally designed it nonetheless represents a significant milestone in the career of zaha hadid. Knowing that its company fire brigade could only combat a fire in its initial stages and could not replace the public fire services vitra decided to disband its fire brigade a few years later.
The famed fire station on the vitra campus.