Criteria for intervention in the restoration of the main floor of Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Batlló

Abstract

The modifications over time to the piano nobile, brought about both by the uses and the inhabitants between the 1950s and 1990s, created a substantial reduction in the value of the whole of the space as a composition. Thus, the stuccoes, the wainscoting, the carpentry, had an individual value, that had been blurred with the significant alterations of the original project by Antoni Gaudí. The restoration of this main floor has tried to find a way to develop the original unifying power of each fragment that contained it, evaluating in a way proportional to how well each has survived.

Keywords

• estratigrafía
• estucos
• arrimaderos
• cemento natural
• madera