Study on Zaha Hadid's Mobile Art Pavilion

The pavilion’s primary shape, the practice used a torus — the geometric term for a doughnut — with the exhibition in the ring and the courtyard in the hole. Then started to distort the torus to create wider, lower spaces and thinner, higher spaces, sometimes double height, that vary the experience around the loop. Cutting through all materials, this ordering system is expressed on the surface as black lines running longitudinally over the pavilion, then underfoot across the entrance terrace. The pavilion’s latitudinal divisions aren’t simply horizontal cuts parallel to the ground plane, they are contours within the 3D model, known as isoparms.