Zaha Hadid Architects

CIRRUS

Cincinnati, USA
2008

Photography © Zaha Hadid Architects

PROGRAM:
Furniture made from Formica®
to be sold at auction benefiting the CAC’s exhibitions and education programs

CLIENT:
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art

MATERIALS:
Laminate by Formica®, colour Black (909-90) in Polished finish, stained medium density fiberboard

SIZE:
244 x 244 x 244 cm

CONCEPT:
Zaha Hadid Architects design Cirrus was produced in collaboration with the Contemporary Arts Center and Formica Corporation. This dynamic sculpture was displayed as a part of the exhibition FORM: Contemporary Architects at Play, in Cincinnati in May 2008. A live auction will took place at which this exclusive first edition of Cirrus was sold. All proceeds from the auction went to benefit the CAC’s exhibitions and education programs.

Completed in 2003, 2008 year marks the 5th anniversary of Zaha Hadid’s seminal design for the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati. It was conceived as an Urban Carpet that draws in circulation around the suspended interlocking solids and voids of the galleries. Cirrus offers a carpet of interiority as its striated and weaved articulations unravel from the wall to the ground. The encompassed series of voids structure the sculpture, providing functional areas for sitting, leaning, lying, and reclining.

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ARCHITECT:
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
DESIGN: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
DESIGN TEAM: Melodie Leung, Gerhild Orthacker