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Home House restoration by Zaha Hadid

published in: Restaurants/Bars By Costas Voyatzis, 22 January 2009

photo © Luke Hayes

Home House, London, UK. 2008 by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects first London interior for two decades explodes within the Georgian restoration of the ground floor at Home House private members club. The furniture installations, in saturated Georgian colours, flow through the bar, entrance, and reception rooms to create an interior landscape of sculptural islands. The sinuous forms follow the fluid geometries of natural systems and distortions. Whilst further informed by the ergonomic considerations of a social environment, each piece is conceived through the morphological language that remains its primary formal determination.

The furniture installations at Home House demonstrate a new type of living environment that continues the investigations of dynamic space making, creating a new open aesthetic that plays with the user’s interaction. James Wyatt’s original programmed spaces are recalled in the functionality of the composition’s fluid and fresh forms. The islands float between history and future, inviting a dialogue between past and present, elasticity and solidity and craftsmanship spanning three centuries A new sensibility has evolved out of a refined knowledge of CNC milling and material technologies, allowing us to develop our design techniques and further contribute to the current global discourse in digital design and fabrication.

photo © Luke Hayes

A unique dichotomy is realized within Home House between this new formal language of morphology and dynamic forces and the characteristic orthogonal programming of its Georgian envelope. “We are building the future in a space from the past. The Home House design is architectural discourse of contrasts.” states Hadid. “For the bar at Home House, we wanted to create an environment where the bar completely dominates the space. Using a dynamic vertical gesture of fluidity, we were able generate an exciting dichotomy with the Cartesian arrangement of the Georgian space. As with our architecture, where we have created inhabited structure, members and guests occupy the bar at Home House instead of simply standing in front of it. They become part of the experience.

“For the lounge, it was more about creating a comfortable, relaxing environment. We developed this space as a horizontal field of disparate objects that are formally integrated and considered as an ensemble. This room achieves a greater degree of warmness and intimacy with the specific use of scale, colour and finishes. Positioned in the middle of the space, is a unique and functional piece used for serving, seating and entertaining.

photo © Luke Hayes

photo © Luke Hayes

photo © Luke Hayes

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About Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid, founding partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 and is internationally known for her built, theoretical and academic work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary experimentation and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design.
Working with senior office partner Patrik Schumacher, Hadid’s interest is in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and geology as the practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems that lead to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies. Such a process often results in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.
The MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, BMW Central Building in Leipzig and Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg are excellent demonstrations of the practice’s quest for complex, dynamic space. Previous seminal buildings, such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati and Hoenheim-Nord Terminus in Strasbourg have also been hailed as architecture that transforms our vision of the future with new spatial concepts and bold, visionary forms.
Currently, the practice is working on a multitude of projects including; the Fiera di Milano master-plan and tower, the Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, High-Speed Train Stations in Naples and Durango, the CMA CGM Head Office tower in Marseille and urban master-plans in Beijing, Bilbao, Istanbul, Singapore and the Middle East.
Zaha Hadid Architects continues to be a global leader in pioneering research and design investigation. Collaborations with artists, designers, engineers and clients that lead their industries have advanced the practice’s diversity and knowledge, whilst the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies have aided the realization of fluid, dynamic and therefore complex architectural structures.
Zaha Hadid’s work was the subject of a critically-acclaimed retrospective exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006 and showcased at London’s Design Museum in 2007. Hadid’s recently completed projects include the Nordpark Railway stations in Innsbruck, Mobile Art for Chanel in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York, the Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion in Spain and the Burnham Pavilion in Chicago.

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  • friend
    Jo Yana / Blog Dιco-Design | 2009-01-22 20:32:51

    AMAZING !!!!

  • friend
    teapod | 2009-01-23 21:23:53

    Simple and flat function. Another thing that this won`t look so great is everything around be like it, it look good because everything around is flat.

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    rix | 2009-05-05 15:48:42

    ...ugly piece of plastic standing in the middle of the room with no subtleness at all. it just says: LOOK AT ME!!! HERE I AM. the right thing for the champagne spoilers using it. therefore: good work!

  • friend
    markotron | 2009-06-02 20:51:13

    superbanalite!

  • friend
    tomas | 2009-06-13 14:46:03

    its a most beautiful thing which i ever seen... respect from CZ

  • friend
    NaMaHa | 2009-07-13 00:36:12

    This looks like a piece from a Stanley Kubrick film in that it looks incredibly modern and almost futuristic but will end up years later looking incredibly dated. That is not to say I do not like it however.

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    giga | 2009-09-10 11:35:45

    Form follows function - Sullivan Inside is outside is inside - Mies van der Rohe (in relation with Zaha's analize of flow movement topographic behaviour an so on) Less is more - Mies van der Rohe Ornament is a crime - Adolf Loos Sorry just beautiful maybe even functional but more an art piece than a design, only form don't ipresses me at all. I prefer more modest people who are creating for others and not for there memory in our society by building monuments. Great work congratulations.

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