Casa MilÃ
The house Milà, the German translation of Casa Milà, was built by the architect Antoni Gaudí 1906-1910 for the Milà family in Barcelona. It is located in Passeig de Gràcia No. 92 ( junction with Carrer de Provença ).
Gaudí made with this building pioneering work. So did his thought through natural ventilation air- conditioning unnecessary, in each apartment can individually change the walls, and underground parking already exists. The draft Gaudí intended elevators were, however, not then built and built until much later. The building is a concrete - iron construction with pillars without bearing walls and retaining walls. The wrought iron balconies are unique improvised by Josep Maria Jujol, who worked in other projects with Gaudí.
The three patios, one round, two elliptical, are design features which the architect used repeatedly in order to provide the rooms with plenty of light and fresh air. Nearly all rooms have windows with natural daylight, which was very unusual for that time. All stately rooms face the street or the inner courtyard of the road Carrées, the servants' rooms and budget rooms to the three inner courtyards that.
First one held in Barcelona not too much of the house, it quickly became under the nickname of " La Pedrera " ( " The Quarry " ) known. This name owes its irregular facade, with its many projections and its massive mass that falls from a distance the eye.
Casa Milà was the last secular buildings of Gaudí, before focusing all his energy on the church building Sagrada Família.
The building was founded in 1984 by UNESCO as the first building of the 20th century World Heritage Site. It belongs to the local savings bank ( Caixa de Catalunya), which uses the former, about 1,000 m² Belle- floor apartment for art exhibitions. An apartment on the sixth floor of the building is equipped with furnishings from the 1920s and can, like the attic, where there is an exhibition on the works of Gaudí, and the roof terrace with interesting ventilation shafts and stairwells be visited with water accumulation. In the remaining floors are offices, some are still inhabited by the members of long-established, Catalan families.