Gaudi and his work

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, is a famous architect. His architectures always make people think he is an enchanter from fairy tale. Because he never use straight lines in his architectures. It is very lucky that I have chance to see his work in my own eyes during the summer break.

pictures from google

 These are his famous works. Gaudi is a strange architect, the only one person whose works are all in one city. So every year, millions of visitors come to Barcelona just to see this crazy man’s architectures.

From all his work, I find a detail that related to my project, side proved colour and light exist everywhere. In Casa Batllo (Batllo house), the tiles in courtyard are very peculiar. The tiles colour near the roof is darker than the bottom. He consider the sunshine comes into courtyard, the place that brighter the colour of the tiles will be lighter, then the darker place the colour will be the opposite.

near the roof

bottom

whole view

The last picture shows the whole view of Gaudi’s special design. From this special design, the colour is uniform distribute. And also, see through the special designed glasses, the blue tiles look like under the ocean. That is because light refraction.