MAXXI Museum

• Designed by Zaha Hadid, the museum serves as a multi-purpose hub for arts and culture...


  the MAXXI creates an urban complex for the city that can be enjoyed by all. The MAXXI includes – in addition to the two museums – an auditorium, library and media library, bookshop and cafeteria, spaces for temporary exhibitions, outdoor spaces, live events and commercial activities, laboratories, and places for study and leisure.
• The design by Zaha Hadid is woven into the city’s fabric with an architectural arrangement based on the idea of an urban campus.


  the idea of a “closed” building gives way to a broader dimension, creating both indoor and outdoor spaces that become part of the surrounding city.
• The fluid and sinuous shapes, the variety and interweaving of spaces and the modulated use of natural light lead to a spatial and functional framework of great complexity, offering constantly changing and unexpected views from within the building and outdoor spaces.
• Two principle architectural elements characterize the project: the concrete walls that define the exhibition galleries and determine the interweaving of volumes; and the transparent roof that modulates natural light


  The roofing system complies with the highest standards required for museums and is composed of integrated frames and louvers with devices for filtering sunlight, artificial light and environmental control.
• The execution of the curved walls was possible thanks to a mixture of self-compacting concretes and prefabricated three-dimensional formworks, developed with computer programs and assembled on site. 
• The complex roof formed of triangular ribs, which will hold the temporary partition walls for exhibitions, was carried out with steel profiles. The glass surfaces placed between the ribs illuminate the exhibition halls.