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Neither the Alhambra nor the Mosque of Córdoba. The Sagrada Familia is right now essentially the most visited Spanish monument. With virtually 5 million guests a 12 months, it’s tough to get a ticket to entry the inside of the temple designed by Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926). The venture, which has been underneath development for greater than a century, now has a digital preamble within the Barcelona Cathedral. It is an expertise that, though not actual, feels actual. It is quick – though neither hasty nor banal – and really stunning. Gaudí, the Workshop of the Divine It constitutes each an correct and respectful abstract of the work, ideology and lifetime of the architect in addition to introduction to the go to to Gaudí’s Barcelona.

Since La Pedrera, La Casa Vicens, El Palau Güell and La Casa Batlló opened their doorways to guests for a price, Barcelona has change into, past town of wonders, town of Gaudí. That actuality now has its introduction in a constructing that, with out being the work of that architect, is a part of his biography.

In the Gothic quarter of Barcelona, ​​not removed from the Palace that Gaudí constructed for his patron Eusebio Güell, the Cathedral was the final constructing wherein the architect from Reus – who had settled within the Sagrada Familia to dedicate all his time to the development of the temple – was earlier than being run over by a tram. That Sunday, he attended mass on the Cathedral. He used to do it as a result of he confessed within the neighboring oratory of Sant Felip Neri, maybe essentially the most lovely sq. in Barcelona.

Very shut by, coming into via the door of Santa Eulalia, on Calle del Bisbe, right now it’s attainable to retrace that journey and end up, one flooring above, within the Sala de la Mercé, with the closest factor to summarizing, or discovering, Gaudí in 20 minutes.

At that point and geared up with digital actuality glasses, helmets make the expertise attainable. Thus, organized in teams of as much as 10 guests, one can enter, just about and in virtually any language, into that workshop that Gaudí moved to the Sagrada Familia, or contained in the temple itself. The movie is a stunning train that mixes rigor and new applied sciences, a stunning expertise that’s architectural as a result of it’s perceived three-dimensional and alive and that, nonetheless, will not be actual.

Gaudí, the Workshop of the Divine has been carried out by the French firm Gedeon Experiences – which signed a piece with the identical traits titled Versailles rediscovered—. Filmed with VR expertise, the expertise has been awarded on the PiXii competition in La Rochelle, Stereopsia in Brussels and Beyond the Frame in Tokyo. Promoted by the group Landscapes, accountable for the Mira Digital Arts Festival, it recreates Gaudí’s final days. He additionally clarifies that his works don’t imitate nature however relatively comply with its logic and order.

Surely the least actual factor concerning the expertise is getting near a dying Gaudí. The most, the infinite sensation of trying up contained in the Sagrada Familia. In any case, it’s tough to study extra about Gaudí in 20 minutes: even digital, the expertise feels artisanal.