Heydar Aliyev Center Maze

Designed by the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, it houses an auditorium, a gallery hall and a museum. You can read more about the museum on it’s wikipedia page. I have never visited Baku, Azerbaijan, but after learning about this building and making the maze I have put it on my list.

Let’s take a look at a photo of the building taken from the bottom of the steps:

The Maze: This maze, done in black and white (I could color the windows I guess) was based off of standing at the top of the steps (vs the photo above). Instead of an arrow for the start/goal I used internal words for this maze.

Heydar Aliyev Center maze in full color:

This became part of my Case Study#8 - Improving Previous Mazes when I decided to add color and shadows to the maze. I like how it came out !

And finally, if you want to watch the making of the maze and the solution instead in a quick video, I’ve got that covered to: