Christie and BAF dazzled Barcelona with a mapping in Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló celebrated 10 years of cultural visits and shared with the entire city of Barcelona a surprising and vibrant audiovisual show - created by the company BAF with the help of four Christie Roadster S+20K projectors -, which revealed all the symbols and interpretations that inspired the brilliant architect Antoni Gaudí when creating such an exceptional façade..

Casa Batlló, masterpiece by Antoni Gaudí and World Heritage by UNESCO since the year 2005, wanted to celebrate his 10 years of cultural visits with a surprising 3D audiovisual mapping on its façade, made thanks to four projectors Christie Roadster S+20K with DLP technology 3 chips. The projections, lasting approximately 20 minutes, They could be experienced for two nights in three shows with the presence of the comedian and presenter Andreu Buenafuente.

With the title of 'The Awakening of Casa Batlló', the assembly, which has been produced by the studio NineEyes and made by the company BAF, has given life to all the symbols and interpretations that inspired Gaudí to create such an exceptional façade. The dragon of Sant Jordi, carnival masks, the harlequins, mouths that yawn or sing, skeletons, Monet's water lilies, Bats and other creatures of the night woke up from their centuries-old slumber in an exciting and surprising audiovisual spectacle that allowed more than one person to dream. 8000 people who attended every day to see the show.

In order to carry out this project, more than 10 months of work. During these months, An arduous task of selecting and compiling images was carried out, as well as the development of scripts for the different sequences that served to document the different legends and symbologies that would be revealed during the mapping..

The four Christie Roadster S+20K (SXGA+ resolution, 20000 ANSI lumens) stakes of two were used on a layer tower of 12 meters high and 37 meters of the projection surface, which had a total of 15 x 32 metros. The resolution was 1400 x 1940 and there was a media server to launch the contents and for geometries and blending, as well as a production PC to program the contents. ChristieNET was also used for the alignment and calibration of the blending of the projectors..

Xavier Gibert, technician specialized in mapping/warping and real-time video engineering at BAF, has indicated that “Christie Roadster S+20K projectors are always very reliable and robust, even in extreme conditions, since one day it rained and they got a little wet because the front part of the cape was uncovered for ventilation and visibility reasons., and the wind was blowing strong… but at no time did they give any scare; “These are excellent projectors due to their luminosity and design”.

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