Sagrada Família, Technical Offices

Location: Basilica of the Sagrada Família : Barcelona

Architecture: Antoni Gaudí / Arq. Dir. Jordi Faulí i Oller

Engineering: AIA Architects – Facilities Master Plan

Year of construction: 2018

The Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia, is a Catholic basilica in Barcelona, designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí. Begun in 1882, it is still under construction. It is Gaudí’s masterpiece, and the maximum exponent of Catalan modernist architecture.

The Passion Sacristy is part of the perimeter constructions of the Temple.

There are two symmetrical sacristies in the project, located on Provença street. The only one already built is the Passion Sacristy, which currently houses an exhibition area on the first floor and the offices of the Basilica’s technical construction team on the upper floors.

The building is a dome designed to serve as a lantern of natural light to the interior space, with double height and perimeter mezzanine. A space full of light.

The interior vaults with a large central hyperboloid for the passage of light, and the large windows as elliptical and circular rosettes on the second floor, are a clear example of this will.

The lighting project was a real challenge: to preserve the essence for which the space had been conceived, but in the absence of natural light. It was necessary to think of certain lighting strategies that would allow the elaborate geometry of walls and ceilings to be admired, and at the same time allow for good lighting in the work areas. For this purpose, we combine different systems: the general lighting is resolved by means of free-standing luminaires 2.5m high, with issue up&down with separate ignition circuits, which, placed next to the work tables, provide the appropriate levels in the work area, contrast in the surrounding areas and create a general upward illumination without halo marks that allows the space to be admired without altering its properties.

These luminaires are mobile and are designed to be distributed according to interior distribution changes. They are connected to natural light sensors, with a data protocol that allows to turn on, turn off, and regulate their flow according to the natural light contribution of the space.