zaha and ma concepts

Zaha Hadid

• Uses up a lot of horizontal space, prefers width to height
• Looks to be wave inspired, feels like flowing water
• Uses curves to make the building flow, no straight edges
• feels like she dipped her finger in paint and smeared it across a page
• no part of the building feels irrelevant, there are no individual parts to the building

Ma Yansong

• looks to be inspired by water fountains, flowing water
• incorporates natural elements into his ideas, almost creating nature as an architecture
• treating architecture as a landscape
• nature looks to be the main inspiration, his concepts include plants and trees a lot
• environmentally symbiotic