Cripta de la Colònia Güell: interior

The funicular models for the church, with which Gaudi worked out the arch and vaulting loadings, were a challenge both structurally and aesthetically. Gaud� 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 G�ell contains all the structural forms devised by Gaud�.