And the imagination arrived!…. The video Love Home Batlló plunges us into a new vision of virtual architecture of the famous Antoni Gaudí before this peculiar modernist construction located in the Passeig de Gràcia (Eixample Area – Barcelona) with the aim of show every corner of this fabulous house.
The short film about architecture Catalan , winner of the Festival Award International of RIGA, selected among 250 videos and that, In addition, he has been awarded the first prize in the category of best cultural tourism film. And it is that the image of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona is a show not to forget.
As an aside, another interesting short is the one on the evolution of housing through time where we can see in a way simplified the stages of architecture up to today.
A video spot full of fantasy and creativity created by the Casa Batlló foundation to introduce the public in a world of dreams before the creativity and imagination the architect Catalan Antoni Gaudí in a house unique and with a lot of history. Let's remember that La Casa Batlló is a World Heritage Site of Unesco and a must-see for the thousands of tourists who visit Barcelona every year in search of the icons and the different architectural attractions such as the Holy Family , the Palace and Park Güell, the House Milà or the Colonia Güell Crypt, among others.
We want to share with everyone – those of you who haven't yet seen – the video “LOVE Casa Batlló” . Users!…Keep your eyes open for a show visual deserving of a good applause. let the function of the history of casa batlló !
But in reality not everything is in a video, from the portal official, you can access a virtual tour of the interiors of the Batlló house that it will really surprise you. A true adventure through of the modernist work through the panoramic 360º, from HERE.
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The building was built in 1875 by Emilio Sala Cortés (1841-1920), an architect author of several buildings in Barcelona and province. Hall He was also a professor at the School of Architecture from Barcelona , and was one of Gaudí's teachers, which he occasionally employed as a draftsman in his early days of learning.
See also the article on construction techniques and types in Spain with a series of exceptional and very visuals.
In the history of the Batlló house There were different owners. The architect house Batlló was Emilio Sala Cortés (Professor of the school of architecture of Barcelona and He was one of Gaudí's teachers). In 1903 the building It was acquired by the industrialist Josep Batlló i Casanovas, a wealthy businessman who owned several factories textiles in Barcelona .
He was married to Amàlia Godó i Belaunzarán, from the of the counts of Godó, editors of the newspaper La Vanguardia, with whom he had five children. The couple lived in the plant nobleman of the house until the death of both (in 1934 Mr. Batlló and in 1940 his wife), which was sold in 1954 by his children, installed in turn in other apartments, some of which they have been inhabited until today.
Batlló bought the building for 510,000 pesetas, with the first intention of tearing it down and building one new, although later he settled for reforming it and giving his touch particular to the interior design of the house. while he reserved the main plant, the rest was exploited under a rent, as was customary in the bourgeois houses of the time (although also he gave some floors to his children as they were getting married).
The building was located in the heart of the Ensanche de Barcelona , designed by Ildefonso Cerdá and approved in 1859, with a system reticular of blocks of houses with cut corners, with the forecast of building on two sides and dedicating the rest to gardens, this last point that finally was not carried out. (See urban expansion projects to understand the
With the Ensanche , the Paseo de Gracia became one of the main arteries of the city, for which he was elected by the Catalan bourgeoisie to establish their residences, thanks to which this road grew quickly and became a constructive hive where the best architects of Barcelona .
For the remodeling, Batlló commissioned the project to Antonio Gaudí, at that time an architect already of great renown. The architect focused on the façade, the main floor, the interior patio of lights and the roof, and built a fifth floor for the services of the Casa Batlló de Gaudí (laundry rooms and storage rooms) following his line modernist .
Gaudi's project suffered several modifications from its conception to its final realization, due to the continuous search for the best solutions structures by the architect .
In the first draft, he showed an initial intention to crown the building with a sinuous shaped dome irregular, which eventually became a dragon-shaped vault , which it is the main hallmark of the building. Likewise, the tower with the four-armed cross that tops the roof was planned on the left side of the roof, but Gaudí moved it towards the center so that it would not interfere with the stepped top of the adjacent Casa Amatller , showing great respect for the work of his colleague Puig i Cadafalch.
In 1940 Casa Batlló passed as an inheritance to the daughters of the Batlló-Godó couple (Carmen and Mercedes), the which sold it in 1954 to Seguros Iberia, which installed there their business offices. In 1984 the lighting was installed electricity of the façade, inaugurated in the Festivals of the Mercè of that year.
In 1993 it was acquired by the Bernat family, owners of the Chupa Chups company, which restored it and opened it commercially to the public, being currently a point of visit almost mandatory for any tourist.
The Casa Batlló was declared Historical-Artistic Monument of Character National in 1969 , and since 2005 forms part of the World Heritage of UNESCO , within the “Works of Antoni Gaudí” Site. (Actually there are 7 buildings;
If we want to know more about the works of Antoni Gaudí and his life, we leave you this marvelous video:
Taking advantage of the fact that there are a multitude of tools to know the history of the cities. From the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) have a new dissemination tool that shows in the network of networks in a very visual way how it has evolved the Catalan capital of Barcelona for practically twenty-two centuries.
The Barcelona Historical Charter , a project conceived and developed by the museum itself with cartography which leaves one wondering how it has altered - and why reason- the city since the founding of Roman Barcino until our times.
