# Cripta de la Colònia Güell: interior [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GAUDÍ, Antoni]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The funicular models for the church, with which Gaudi worked out the arch and vaulting loadings, were a challenge both structurally and aesthetically. Gaudí identified the natural disposition of the given structural form by hanging canvas bags filled with pellets on strings, the weight being proportional to those of the loadings he had calculated. Thus weighted, the strings displayed the shape of the skeleton of the future church. The "frame" of the Colònia Güell contains all the structural forms devised by Gaudí. ## Related artworks - [Bench seat]() - [Casa Batlló: chimneys]() - [Casa Batlló: façade]() - [Casa Batlló: Fireplace Room]() - [Casa Batlló: general view]() - [Casa Batlló: interior]() - [Casa Batlló: interior]() - [Casa Batlló: interior]() - [Casa Batlló: interior]() - [Casa Batlló: top of the façade]() - [Casa Batlló: view of the roof]() - [Casa Milà: façade \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()