Can you guess which famous cathedral this is?

Publicat de Cosmin Meca, 5 iulie 2015, 13:39 / actualizat: 30 ianuarie 2021, 11:12

This is the ceiling of the famous Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. The columns of the interior are a unique Gaudí design. Besides branching to support their load, their ever-changing surfaces are the result of the intersection of various geometric forms. The simplest example is that of a square base evolving into an octagon as the column rises, then a sixteen-sided form, and eventually to a circle. This effect is the result of a three-dimensional intersection of helicoidal columns (for example a square cross-section column twisting clockwise and a similar one twisting counter-clockwise).

Gaudí was very much inspired by nature and geometry in his works, thus making these columns resemble the trees in a forest, the circle forms representing the hollows of the trees.