Ski jump innsbruck zaha hadid biography

It is 90 meters long and 50 meters tall, its design being so that it blends harmoniously into the landscape.

Different parts were moulded into a single, minimal mass, and the ramp of the ski jump continues the slope of the mountain. There is a reason behind Hadid’s nickname “queen of the curve”; organic curves are omnipresent in her works.

She calls the building an “organic hybrid” between a tower and a bridge, a combination of a vertical and a diagonal. The vertical is the tall shaft that takes up a seven-meter square plan.

Ski jump innsbruck zaha hadid biography

Two elevators take people from the bottom floor up to 40 meters above the peak of the mountain where the café is located. The observation desk allows for view of both the city of Innsbruck and the surrounding alps, allowing you to feel encompassed between diverging forces of nature and human built forces. 

The spaces we inhabit have an immense effect on the way we act.

As Frank Duffy, one of