Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Discovery Strip)

Zaha Hadid

1982-83

An exploratory ink-on-tracing-paper architectural drawing by Zaha Hadid that proposes a fragmented, slashing plan for the Parc de la Villette in Paris and seeks to reconceive public space through diagonals, overlaps, and dynamic movement.

What strikes you is the dramatic economy of a vast white field pierced by thin, precise black diagonals and tapering shards that seem to slice, pivot, and propel space in multiple directions.

Made in the early 1980s, this visionary sketch helped define Hadid’s contribution to deconstructivist architectural thinking by treating the plan as a sculptural, programmatic composition that opened new ways of imagining movement and urban sequence.

Palette

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Drawing Ink Plan drawing Avant-garde

Exhibitions

Visionary Architecture

1960

Projects: Pier 18

1971

Le Corbusier: Architectural Drawings

1978

Sculptors' Drawings

1986