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Casa mila floor plans.
As with other gaudí s works casa milà draws its forms from nature.
Elevation and plan drawing of facade f7 p179.
For the floors of casa milà gaudí used a model of floor forms of square timbers with two colors and the hydraulic pavement hexagonal pieces of blue and sea motifs that had originally been designed for the batllo house.
Completed in 1912 in barcelona spain.
For gaudi la pedrera represented the most advanced approach to a building on a chamfered street corner in the eixample in barcelona.
La casa milà popularly known as la pedrera stone quarry in catalan is one of the paradigmatic works of catalan modernism and building that perhaps best sums up all the architectural elements used by gaudí.
Section drawing of facade f7 p179.
Pere milà the owner had seen the house batlló also made by gaudí and was excited by her beauty which commissioned the catalan architect conducting a large.
It was the last private residence designed by him.
Innovations include the self supporting limestone façade a free plan floor an underground garage and the spectacular terrace on the roof.
Casa mila la pedrera is regarded as antoni gaudi s most iconic work of civic architecture due its constructional and functional innovations as well as its ornamental and decorative solutions which broke with the architectural styles of his day.