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Art Basel : Zaha Hadid Art
Architecture Event in Switzerland – Art Basel Designs
15 May 2007
Art Basel Switzerland – Designs
Art Basel, 13–17 June, 2007
Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Mesa for Vitra
Crater for David Gill Galleries
Belu for Kenny Schachter ROVE Gallery
Buckminster Fuller Dome, Vitra Campus Weil/Rhein near Basel
13 Jun 9-11pm
14-17 Jun upon request campus@vitra.com
Mesa becomes a microcosmic extrusion of the spatial ideas inherent in Zaha’s architecture. Form doesn’t follow only function but instead is drawn along by the narrative of the plan and flow of space. It becomes something plastic and elastic, more Einsteinian than Cartesian, an evocation of a world shaped by unseen forces and dark matter, a fluid, flowing, four-dimensional world in which a table can distort the space within it and around it. It transforms any space into a Zaha room.
Descriptive text by Edwin Heathcote
Crater for David Gill Galleries
Booth 15, Design Miami/Basel, Markthalle, Viaduktstrasse 10 CH-4051.
13-17 Jun
Crater represents the latest manifestation of Zaha Hadid’s 30-year exploration and research that continues to challenge our preconceptions of design. With Crater, Hadid’s experimentation leads to an entirely unique line of questioning that explores the relationship between the table and disparate objects placed upon its surface.
Hadid has reduced the substance of the table and these objects on its surface into the purest of forms – an Absolute expression of function that liberates our expectations and allows us to reconsider this relationship. She then reconnects each function with a sensual fluidity generated by her dialogue of smooth transitions between elements.
Belu for Kenny Schachter ROVE Gallery
Booth 3, Design Miami/Basel, Markthalle, Viaduktstrasse 10, Basel, CH-4051
12-16 Jun
Belu is conceived as an autonomous single-celled body that allows for multi-functional use; as a table, counter, chair, container, or simply as a surface to lean on, rest on… With the dynamic complex geometry of a fluid volume, Belu is able to generate varying adjacency conditions in its direct relationship with the human body. Belu is not just an object for display, but a dynamic gesture that spatially defines its surroundings whilst serving a variety of functions.
In a re-visitation of the original concept, these unique geometries of Belu have been maintained yet scaled down in all three dimensions. This series affords Belu further possibilities of direct intervention within the domestic environment.
Art Basel images / information from Zaha Hadid Architects 040607
Location: Basel, Switzerland, central Europe
Architecture in Switzerland
Swiss Architecture Designs – chronological list
Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect
Swiss Architecture Designs – architectural selection below:
Weltpostpark site buildings, Bern
Design: SSA Architekten, Basel, Switzerland
photograph © Ruedi Walti
Weltpostpark residential buildings Bern
The last apartments in the SSA Architekten-designed Weltpostpark development are now occupied. The striking six-storey residential buildings have an urban feel about them, while the park-like surroundings and the varied clinker brick facades create a homely atmosphere.
Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel, Weggis, Canton Lucerne
Design: Davide Macullo Architects
photograph : Roberto Pellegrini
Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel
Conversion Theatre 11
Design: EM2N Architects
Zurich theatre
Tyre Shop / Art Exchange
Design: Camenzind Evolution
Swiss building design
The Murezzan, St Moritz
Design: Foster + Partners
The Murezzan St Moritz
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