Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Visiting Batlló house.

During my travels through allied kingdoms, recently I visited a building of architect Antoni Gaudí: the Batlló house in Barcelona, in the Kingdom of Spain. Obviously there is no comparison to my cozy castle of Winterfell but I must say that this is an interesting building.

It is a building with innovative and original shapes and structural forms being a great source of inspiration for designers and architects.
It was built for the Batlló family and both the design and the construction management were carried out by the architect Antoni Gaudí.

On the facade of the building there are shapes inspired by the sea, waves and even bones of large creatures like dragons in the balcony railings and exterior columns.

Inside it is possible appreciate that the wealthy Batlló family lived not badly.



Although the fact that these sumptuous containers were empty is suspect.

Furniture was also designed by Antoni Gaudí.

Design of the windows intended to evoke the ocean surf:

The walls and the whole interior of the rooms have original forms, there are not the usual plane walls with 4 corners.


Designs of dragon scales are present throughout the building.

It is very remarkable the tiles geometric design:






The building also features a showy terrace.



In one of the rooms there is a guestbook where I could sign to honor them with a proof of my noble visit:

And the sign (bottom right):