BMW Central Building by Zaha Hadid

In 2002, the German auto giant BMW funded a prestigious competition to design a Central Building at its factory on the outskirts of Leipzig, a $1.55 billion complex where 5,000 employees can assemble up to 650 of BMW’s 3-Series sports cars daily. From 25 invited international architects, Zaha Hadid got the key with her extraordinary design. The £34 million project targets to gather factory and office in a shared experience of manufacturing cars.

The Central Building is the active nerve-center or brain of the entire factory complex. It is connecting three production buildings, serving a common space for workers, management, technicians and visitors. All threads of the building’s activities accumulate together and spread out again from here. Canteens and social rooms, staff assembly halls, quality control bays and entrance halls are all hosted within the open, flowing spatial continuum.

By placing the administrative building between adjacent factory buildings, BMW rejects any standard separation between labor and service. Blue-collar factory workers and white-collar managers synergy in a fluid matrix of automotive production and administration. This design strategy applies to the cycles and trajectories of people, workers (arriving in the morning and back for lunch) and visitors, as well as for the cycle and progress of the production line which pass across this central point, departing and returning again.

Cars in various levels of completion pass through the Central Building, moving along tracks as they move between production areas, while the employees and public visitors could view them. The inside activities, from executive offices to production areas, a shape of star-like structure is defying to conventional concepts of a hierarchical workplace by placing both administrative and factory sections in equal grade to the central core.

Large office spaces for administration contain enclosed glass-panels for meetings, while laboratory and conference rooms are connected by ramps, stairs, and hallways, and even expressed by conveyor belts, which are illuminated in blue. The plan allowed the legal foundation for the construction of the automobile plant and additional commercial and industrial lots to be created, infrastructure measures to be applied and landscape compensation measures to be executed within a period of less than two years.

“The Central Building is the active nerve-center or brain of the whole factory complex (where) all the threads of the building’s activities gather together and branch out again from here,” Hadid says. This analogy not only influences the building’s exterior design but also it’s interior, though it is dominant here.

The interior overlaps the various threads in the ceilings, roofs, and circulation; assembling lines that cut through the spaces as they move slowly from one factory building to another. This gesture not only shows the unfinished product but also illustrates the company’s integrative approach to business. The multi-story interior helps to direct the visitor in the highly complex space that steps to three stories where necessary, responding to the site and BMW’s functional requirements. Its entrance is an immense arrangement of concrete fins, beams and glass. The lobby allows views deep into the building and is occasionally emphasized by courtyards to allow daylight and improve visibility deeper into the space.

semester baru

15 january 2009 aku akan mandaftar diri sebagai pelajar
semester 6 di polipd..
so..
kena la mulakan azam yang lebih baik dari semester lepas..
perbaiki kelemahan yang ada ni....
sem ni aku kena la skor sbb sem ni la
penentu untuk aku sambung degree nanti kat
universiti..
insyaallah aku boleh lakukan..
amin..

cuti sem....

hati aku mang gembira ari ni.
nak tu kenapa?

aku dah abis dah semester 5.
petang td last paper(final).

so aku cuti sem selamat 4 minggu(sebulan).
nanti 15 january 2009 aku kena daftar semester 6 dah.
last sem katakan di politeknik PD.
senior la..
hehehe.
(bagi aku x diiktiraf senior pun sebab aku masuk terus sem 5..integrasi.)

aku banyak benda ni nak buat time cuti sem.
yang penting aku nak belajar tentang
"urban planning and artlantis sofware"
sebagai persediaan last sem.

last sem la aku nak cover balik semasa
semester 5.

insyaallah helmi..
amin.

time kat kampung aku nak rehat puas2.
disamping 2 blaja la jg "urban planning dengan artlantis sofware"
nak tahu nape aku nak rehat puas2?
aku dah sepanjang sem
kena bekerja (buat design and xsignment)

otak aku mang penat n letih sangat.
caranya aku nak layan semua movie yang aku ambil dari kawan aku.
banyak tau...
dalam 50 gb semuanya.
hehehehe.

di samping 2 kena juga amal ibadat weii.
helmi nih....
hehehehe.

baru la sekata.

tq so much buat mak n abah sebab banyak bg support.
xlupa juga member2 1 studio DSB5 S2 dan
pensyarah DSB5 S2...

salam perantau

aku nak cerita cikit ni.
jommmm.

08 december 2008 tarikh raya aidiladha.
so aku xdapat balik kampung.
kena la beraya kat rumah sewa ni kat port dickson.
satu pengorbanan gak tu.
hehehehe.

aku x balik pn ada sebab.
time ni aku final exam.
ada 3 paper lg.
tarikh 11hb,15hb n last 16hb.
serba salah pulak aku nak balik.
17hb aku nak balik dah.

so redha je.
pape pn.
selamat hari raya aidiladha.
to family kat kampung.
member2 kat rumah 757 lorong 15, taman politeknik, port dickson.
lecturer yang ajar DSBS2 poli PD

tenang.....

hati aku da semakin tenang...
kenapa tidak,
aku dah submit design final project, working drawing final project, tesis building services.
tp aku akan lalui hari port folio nanti 4hb dec 08.
insyaallah semua akan selamat.
amin..

Final

aku nak final da 5hb ni.
tp pada masa yang sama aku ada hari portfolio 4hb disember 08.
semua board n hasil kerja aku kena prepare untk port folio.
aku start final dengan paper .....
Sejarah Senibina Moden- 5hb dec 08.
Sejarah Senibina Asia - 11hb dec 08.
Kemudahan Bangunan - 15hb dec 08.
n last..
Sains Persekitaran - 16hb dec 08...

aku yakin aku boleh lakukan......

Dubai COMING SOON....

Dubai is really nuts in building the tallest structures in the planet....

Nakheel Tower the 1km high tower (this is already approved and is in the pre-construction stage.)
The entire construction area will be of 270 hectares, and when the Nakheel Tower and Harbor will be finished, it will provide enough space for 55,000 inhabitants, workplaces for 45,000 people, and for millions of tourists every year. Although it will be one kilometer-high, the skyscraper will only feature 200 floors, but this could change as the developers don’t want to tell us more about the actual height as rivals could build taller towers.

Here is a nice visual comparison of existing skyscrapers:
Everything pales in comparison with this baby...

Dubai City Tower. its...2.4 kilometers tall!


This gargantuan of a structure is planned for the Jumeirah City project... even includes a vertical bullet train: one-and-a-half mile tall, 125 mph elevator.