Sagrada Família Rosassa : Global Computer- aided Dialogue between Designer and Craftsperson ( Overcoming Differences in Age , Time and Distance )
Abstract
The rose window (rosassa in Catalan) recently completed between the two groups of towers that make up the Passion Façade of Gaudís Sagrada Família Church in Barcelona measures eight metres wide and thirty-five metres in height Figure 1. There were four phases to the design based in three distinct geographical locations. The design was undertaken on site, design description in Australia some eighteen thousand kilometres distant, stone-cutting a thousand kilometres distant in Galicia, with the completion of the window in March 2001. The entire undertaking was achieved within a timeframe of fifteen months from the first design sketch. Within this relatively short period, the entire team achieved a new marriage between architecture and construction, a broader relationship between time-honoured craft technique with high technology, and evidence of leading the way in trans-global collaboration via the Internet. Together the various members of the project team combined to demonstrate that the technical office on site at the Sagrada Família Church now has the capacity to use just-in-time project management in order to increase efficiency. The processes and dialogues developed help transcend the tyranny of distance, the difficult relationship between traditional craft based technique and innovative digitally enhanced production methods, and the three generational age differences between the youngest and more senior team members.
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