CONCEPT
SPATIAL
INSTRUMENT
MIRADOR functions as a spatial instrument marking three references in Barcelona: the Mediterranean Sea, the Sagrada Família, and Montjuïc. The project establishes a dialogue between structure, geometry, material expression, and landscape — operating as a homage to Gaudí's synthesis of form, structure, and environment.
Developed in the "After Gaudí: From Computation to Composition" seminar at IAAC, the project reinterprets catenary arches, ruled surfaces, and hyperbolic paraboloids through computational methodologies — translating physical-model intuitions into precision parametric geometry.
CATENARY / RULED
GEOMETRY
BARCELONA
CONTEXT
COMPUTATIONAL
METHOD
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
OUTPUT
RENDERS — HOVER TO MAGNIFY
ELEVATION VIEW
PERSPECTIVE
DETAIL STUDY
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
MATERIAL STUDY
LIGHT CONDITIONS
URBAN CONTEXT
AERIAL VIEW
ANALYSIS
SCHEMATIC
DRAWINGS
GEOMETRY LOGIC
STRUCTURAL NODE
SURFACE RULING
CATENARY FORM
MODULE SYSTEM
TESSELLATION
LOAD PATH
OPENING LOGIC
AGGREGATION
FINAL ASSEMBLY
STRUCTURAL PROTOTYPE
RING
STRUCTURE
ROTATION STUDY
▶ GIF
PLAN — RING A
SECTION — RING B
AXONOMETRIC
COMPONENT DETAIL
TEAM
Dany Giron
Nikos Kalaitzidis
Elsa Karam
Sejin Park
Alexis López
Ayush Garg
FACULTY
Mark Burry
Rodrigo Aguirre
Akshay Madapura
PROJECT DETAILS