If you are ever looking for a seclusive cave to inspire artistic imaginings or a crazy adventure headquarters or a house that you will never, ever get bored of - look no further than Casa Batlló. This house designed by Gaudí has everything you could imagine and you could never imagine. The skin of reptiles on the walls. A terrace that undulates like the waves of the ocean. Stairs that go up, up, up circling around with a different surprise around everywhere corner. 4 swivel windows that are used like morse code to give signals to your comrades that the enemies are coming from the left - no, the right! Shadows that lurk here and there.....
Chandeliers that look like they were taken from a Dr. Seuss jungle or from an ancient artistic depiction of the sun, giving off shadows that strangely don't match the cut of the lamp itself.
Curves and forms like water or cell bodies or imaginary eyes. Blue stained glass that changes the look of the world outside.
Bones from the skeleton of a dragon that help hold up the house.
Beautiful combinations of curves, circles, flower-like shapes. There are barely any straight lines in this house.
The main living room - or is it the top secret room for decisions made by adventurers?
A terraza that is a mosaic wonderland guarded by the ocean's gates: seaweed wrapping around the fence instead of straight-laced iron.
And if you talk about mysterious doors and windows.........
Combinations of windows, blinds, stairs? Mirrors? Are you looking up or looking down? You can get totally turned around in this house!
A sanctuary in the sky...in the middle of the house?
Or is it a sanctuary in the ocean?
Depends on if you are looking through the shields of glass or not....
It seems like that with this house. That everything changes depending on what direction your head is turned: right, left, up, down, right-side-up, up-side-down, backwards, forwards, diagonal...
Tilt your head a little, and you will see the reptile skin on the wall shine brilliant colors.
Or walk upstairs and you will be inside the prehistoric reptile - or the vestuario of the greatest ancient athletes of the world.
Walk to the roof, and you will encounter a whole different world.
With crazy imaginings you've never had...
Like riding on the back of a dragon to the end's of the sky.
So you run back down the stairs, as if you are flying on that dragon, flying with the ideas and wonders and creations of this house that has made your wildest dreams actually a reality.
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