Title; Gaudi 3-dimensional project

Objectives;To investigate the work of Antonio Gaudi and use his work to inspire my own.

Antonia Gaudi (1852-1926)

Gaudi is an artist and architect from Spain. He was the main architect to assist in re-designing Barcelona’s buildings in the late 19th and early

20th century.

Gaudi got his ideas by looking at natural form.

For example plants, bulbs, seed pods,

leaves and trees.

Gaudi’s most famous building is the

Cathedral Sagrada Familia in

Barcelona. It still isn’t finished, even

though it was started in 1914!

It looks like it is

growing out of the

ground.

Inside the cathedral compare the

shape of trees to the columns.

Bell towers. Look closely, they are

made of stone and mosaic tiles.

Bell towers.

Look how bright

the colours are.

Compare the

top with this

flower.

Bell towers

Mosaic technique

This building is called Casa Mila after Pere Mila a

rich businessman who paid for it. It is also called

‘La Pedrera’ or the quarry.

The roof on top of the

Casa Mila. Note the

air vents and

chimney pots.

One of the air

vents covered

in mosaic tiles.

These chimney pots look

like something from Star

Wars!

These air vents have

been covered in broken

pieces of green

glass bottles;

what does it

look like?

Note the

twist in the

stems. This

helps the

wind pass

the chimney

pot without

damaging

the surfaces.

LESSON 1 Choose a selection of natural things and fill an

A4 page with at least 4 small beautiful sketches. Try to

work from real first hand objects, from a walk or from a

garden (e.g. a snail, a daisy, and apple). If you are not able

to do this you can work from pictures or the internet. Do

NOT work from your imagination, these are to be

observational drawings.

Lesson 2

• Imagine that you live in a

mansion and you have 4 large

chimneys.

• Fill an A4 page with small

sketches of chimneys for your

new mansion. They must be

inspired by nature, use real

plants, animals, bugs etc. for

inspiration. Look at real

nature or images of nature for

guidance, detail and

inspiration.

• (Later you will be carving these out of

soap, so consider your designs, are they

suitable for this purpose?)

Lesson 3

• Fill an A4 page with small sketches of chimneys

for your new mansion.

This time they can be inspired by anything that

interests you, again the sketches need to be

inspired by real objects, not just from your

imagination.

Lesson 4

Carve Your

Soap!

• You will need: - a bar of soap (or maybe a few) – the

best soaps are usually cheap, high

shea content, more oily softer

soaps.

- a normal table knife, it does not

need to be sharp

- A cocktail stick/needle or small

skewer

• To make:1. ‘Draw’ the design on to the soap with

the cocktail stick (remember to think

about the back and the sides (it’s 3D)

2. Carefully scrape away the soap that

you do not need

3. If it brakes try again or turn the

design into something else!