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Design studio projects ›Zaha Hadid: MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts › Chapter summaryrediscover and create the complex circulation patterns
of the city, its inhabitants and their buildings. Further campus
buildings are yet to be constructed in order to complete this
composition.
The movement around the building exterior translates into
the building itself. Hadid has described the way to
experience the contemporary artworks as a ‘drift’ through the
galleries. Rather than a series of cellular rooms, the visitor’s
route is linear, with moments to choose alternative routes and
enter galleries at different points. The two long walls defining
the galleries intersect and separate the space. The ‘streams’
that were visible from the first sketch survive as deep-ribbed
roof members, visible both internally and externally. These
modulate the light admitted into the gallery and will be used
to hang flexible exhibition dividers. The strong black forms
of the stairways and balustrades are reminiscent of the
confident movement lines of that initial sketch.Public view of building prior to
exhibition installationText
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