Leading lines in Park Güell

Casa Martí Trias i Domènech. Parc Güell, Barcelona, 2013

The bricks worked very nicely to set up some powerful leading lines to help pull you into this image. The low perspective magnified the effect.

This home is the Casa Martí Trias i Domènech, built in 1905 in Park Güell, and is one of only two mansions actually constructed out of the 60 or so that were planned (the real estate market was pretty slow in this area in the early 1900s). The Park’s famous architect, Antoni Gaudí, wasn’t the designer of this particular house (Juli Batllevell was), but it fits in quite well thematically.

Casa Trias, then, is an example of what Gaudí envisioned to be a neighborhood of such residences on this hillside park.