During your life, Zaha Hadid dedicated himself to promoting architecture towards modernity. At the time of his death, in 2016, his curriculum was the envy of any architect, and had won innumerable competitions and awards, including the praised Pritzker Award 2004. However, Hadid only designed two residential homes, which have remained in a certain way out of view of the public. One, located in the dense forests surrounding Moscow, seems more extraterrestrial than a building. The other, located at the end of a historic cobbled street in Belgravia (London), is the pemodern residential style summit.
This London house is a little surprise that nobody knows «, Bidisha Sinha explains, associate director of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and director of the Belgravia housing project. «Although many people from all over the world asked Zaha to design his family home, I suspect that time was the real factor [limitante]». It was very involved in the development of each ZHA design. I mean national museums, research institutes, train stations and airports. These large projects were intense and demanded all their attention and talent.»
However, as of 2010, a lucky family had the attention and talent of the inimitable architect: «The owners were friends and patron of Zaha,» recalls Sinha, who, from beginning to end, intervened in each part of the complicated process of the house: «They had known for many years, which meant that [Zaha] He understood his real commitment to bold architecture and the design with vision of the future. «Everything in this house began with exceptional confidence between owners and the architectwhich, I think, is a very good place to create a cozy family space. «
After 2017 (approximately one year after Hadid's sudden death), the surprisingly modern four -storey house is at the end of an emblematic street in the neighborhood. Around the house there are a series of Mews houses, beautiful relics of the 18th century London, when Victorian houses had a visibly separated space for the stagnated horses. In fact, The street is so well protected that Zha had to use small trucks limited weight not to damage the cobbled street. «Unlike any other work, nothing could be stored in place,» says Sinha. «Everything had to settle the same day, within a period [de tiempo] eight hours. So it was a fairly precise programming process that, for some, it would have been a headache. But we were excited and seemed even more exciting. «
Located in such a traditional environment, ZHA design He showed that a boldly abstract residential house could remain faithful to its historical roots. Without a doubt, what makes this house so beautiful is the way it defies the rules without simultaneously challenging. The house, like all the great works of art, has the distinctive DNA of its creator. Anyone who worries about architecture can take a look at this London house and know who is the hand that molded it.