While in the line up, I started chatting with a Polish woman. She was telling me about all the places I should visit along the coast where her and her partner had just been. It was nice to have her to chat with in the line up, not expecting anything else when we get in, but she insisted on waiting for me and going through it together.
Well it wasn't long till I had to ditch her because the audio guide was lengthy and since they did not have a Polish audio guide, she just wandered.
The inside of this apartment building was pretty spectacular. Without boring you, apparently Gaudi was always inspired by nature. The designs of the roof was his way of expressing waves of the ocean. One very interesting I learned about him and his work is that he used a lot recycled material from torn down buildings to create his work. Sustainability, very impressive, definitely ahead of his time.
I was very impressed also by his attention to detail. The apartment building had a light shaft that run from the top of the roof to the bottom floor allowing nature light into the entire building. Along the walls of this shaft were blue tiles. Gaudi took into consideration the way light reflects and how the light would be obviously brighter the higher you go. So to ensure to the naked eyes that the tiles were all the same colour regardless how close it was to the top (more light) or the bottom (less light) he had tiles line the shaft with darker blue tiles near the top and slowly fading in colour to the bottom. To the eyes, it does look like they are the same blue tiles!
What also was amazing was his ability to manipulate material such as tiles. His work is very flowing, without much rigidity, so you can tell when tiling around rounded corners, he was able to break tiles up into pieces and tile the rounded corners perfectly. Truly a master.
I was definitely glad I went into this building to see his work. Here are some more highlights of the tour.
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