Cripta de la Colònia Güell
Unfinished crypt of leaning brick pillars, designed using upside-down hanging chain models.
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This guide to the Crypt of Colònia Güell outside Barcelona follows Antoni Gaudí's decade of work on a church for industrialist Eusebi Güell's workers' colony, begun in 1898. It traces his unconventional design method, chains and weighted cords hung from the ceiling to calculate the strongest arches, and the money troubles that stalled construction after ground broke in 1908. Look up at the leaning brick pillars and basalt columns as you listen for what shaped their tilt.
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