Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Centre

Abstract: Greg Lynn, Christos Passas, and Patrik Schumacher discuss Zaha Hadid Architects’ Phaeno Science Centre, a project, located in Wolfsburg, Germany, that combined the organizational parameters of landscape architecture with digital tools of representation and fabrication to build one of the largest structures ever cast with handmade formwork and self-compacting concrete. This is part of the CCA multi-year research project Archaeology of the Digital, investigating the development and use of computers in architecture.