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16 Gaudi - Auroville Earth Institute
GAUDI’s VAULTED STRUCTURES Gaudi, the Spanish architect from Barcelona, can be seen as a visionary of architecture but also of structures. His greatness as an architect is to be found in a prolific invention of forms and way s to study structures, especially vaulted ones. When he received his architect diploma, the director of his School of architecture said from him: “I don’t know if I gave a diploma to a genius or a mad man”. Mad man, surely not. Gaudi was a genius of a special kind. He found and developed a way to evaluate the stability of vaulted structures . The optimisation method developed by the Earth Institute has been inspired by his findings. He was born in 1852 and his life time has been very prolific. H is quest for perfection made him redo many time a desi gn, until he was entirely satisfied. It is amazing to see how fast he could work and how many works he could handle at the same time. H e passed away in 1926, run over by a tramway, leaving to followers the completion of his greatest project, the Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia. Sagrada Familia 1883-1926 – Original sketch by Gaudi Sagrada Familia in 2005 Sagrada Familia around 1920 Sagrada Familia – Passion entrance Sagrada Familia Sagrada Familia – Crypte Sagrada Familia – Model study with the hyperboloid of revolution Hyperboloid of revolution Stability study Sagrada Familia – Nave with hyperboloids of revolution Stability study Stability study Iglesia Colonia Guell 1898-1914 Iglesia Colonia Guell Iglesia Colonia Guell Iglesia Colonia Guell Iglesia Colonia Guell Iglesia Colonia Guell Iglesia Colonia Guell Iglesia Colonia Guell College de les Teresianes 1888-1890 College de les Teresianes Parc Guell 1900-1914 Parc Guell Parc Guell Parc Guell Parc Guell Parc Guell Casa Batllo 1904-1907 Casa Batllo Casa Batllo Casa Batllo Casa Batllo Casa Batllo Casa Mila – La Pedrera 1906-1912 Casa Mila – La Pedrera Casa Mila – La Pedrera Casa Mila – La Pedrera Casa Mila – La Pedrera Casa Mila – La Pedrera Casa Mila – La Pedrera Casa Mila – La Pedrera Casa Mila – La Pedrera
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