Architects:Kengo Kuma & Associates

Area :260 m²

Year :2021

Photographs :Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

Manufacturers :  Kriskadecor, Chesneys ArchitecturalKriskadecor

Design Team : Javier Villar, Jaime Fernández Calvache, Gorka Beita Zarandona, David Minton Albero, Mila Dimitrovska, Kimio Suzuki (CG)

Clients : Casa Batlló S.L.U.

Project Managment : Casa Batlló

City : Barcelona

Country : Spain

Casa Batlló is a homage to the light of the Mediterranean: its light, shadow, and colors of the sky and sea. The central courtyard captures all that Mediterranean light and distributes it vertically to all the corners of the house, no matter how remote they are. The color gradation from darker to lighter blue doses the light in its vertical travel and makes sure it does not lose its pigments.

In our project we wanted to talk about that genius use of light; making sure every single visitor leaves Casa Batlló having appreciated such qualities, independently of the admiration towards its incredible shapes, craftsmanship, and symbolic allu­sions. And we wanted to do it in an abstract way. Through this abstraction, free of the colors, materials, and historical dimen­sion of the house, we talk without distractions and nostalgia about the concept of light.