Inside La Sagrada Familia: Barcelona’s Unfinished Masterpiece | TIME

[Music] [Music] I think Sagrada família is a project that gets under your skin the opportunity to contribute lifts people to a different dimension [Music] right now we are constructing the district wrist our the working marital and the Evangelist sowards at the same time the district crystal will be the tallest construction in Barcelona 172 point five meters in conventional masonry for churches and cathedrals the walls are between one and two meters thick but the Foundation's do not have the capacity to support a conventional Tower of this scale as we make the wall thinner and thinner the wind effects trying to push the towers over become more and more important and so everything has to be very carefully designed to get this balance between a lack of weight for the foundations and sufficient resistance to stop it blowing over in the wind we ultimately came to this idea that we could do the whole tower using post tensioning stone panels so this is the idea of making relatively thin pieces of stone in blocks stringing them together on steel rods and stressing them together it prevents the panel itself from folding under wind pressure and it means a whole tower can withstand the wind pressure without cracking dangley in shear [Music] we are introducing the methods of the car industry every piece are right together at the same time and Galera make every panel with the Sun under still together the sound come from all over the world durian is UK Germany Spain India Brazil etc the final texture is hard work is not a machine in not a digital process the final texture is mm [Music] [Applause] or ebay raise chromogenic e el templo con grandes camión spss de la que nosotros tenemos el segundo nibble the panel is the lateral fissure Barista Champion as cotton muslin comatose Alto master think of a residential ear asam has been teaching cotton alavés mm esteem okay here are destined rascal streamers in else'll are accompanied ADO's en todo momento de la policia porque suntan and chest cake a cortar la cara gospel daniel aqui estan or maybe if i give exactly the dress so latina would mean limited amount millimeter mark and para self-consciousness unison okay so not a porn evil Dawson Aviles doughnut or a sino que hacerlo say stories todo Tina can Qahhar a la perfectly it's very important this book because the leader is they they go the original plan always there is something to do in the cafe la Gardie working seven forty three years he knew that he will not finish but he designed the complete church in a little drawings with plans sections elevations perspective when we start the construction of new element we study the symbolism meaning the goalie proposed and also the different architectural elements that he left at the moment we are constructing the towers which we designed actually now three years ago and they are relatively plain but the tops the spires are amazingly decorative the very top of the Jesus Tower is accessible to human beings so we will be able to go all the way up the Jesus tower and go and look out over Barcelona and the idea to feel what it will might be like to be closer to God saturos no sabemos ninguna persona que sabemos in the liberal historia pero dentro nuestra ck Unipart a que no tiene mucho de Rueda rare pedido star a key contribution dole es que estamos de la actividad o CTO square a nosotros somos la generación que vamos a cobalt [Music]

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Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2019