Alfalite creates the first six-sided immersive LED screen cube for Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló opens today '10D Experience', a spectacular visit that offers a journey into the mind of Gaudí with technology until now unique in the world, like in Gaudí Cube space, a six-sided Led cube designed and manufactured by Alfalite, and Gaudi Dome, an installation created by David Pérez and produced and performed by Cyan Animatic.

The proposal offered from today ’10D Experience’ makes your visit mandatory Casa Batlló in Barcelona: “Can you imagine being able to see how he saw Gaudí? Can you imagine being able to interpret the shapes and structures of nature as he did?? Only his mind was capable of composing and creating with his genius.”.

And this is the proposal of ‘Withs Cube’: a round trip into the interior of genius, which, thanks to advanced and spectacular technology, allows visitors to enter the mind of Gaudí.

The Gaudí Cube space features a six-sided LED cube, unique so far in the world, that introduces the visitor into the mind of the architect with the help of the Turkish digital artist Refik Anadol with his work 'In the mind of Gaudí’.

To create this 360º experience, The objective of the first phase of the project was to create the world's largest digital library on Gaudí, which entailed laborious and precise research work.

Thanks to the use of artificial intelligence technology, Casa Batlló has collected millions of data, files, photos, videos, plans, writings, drawings, 3D models and original manuscripts of the architect that constitute, to date, the most important digital repository about the artist.

Advanced processors machine learning have managed to decipher the construction patterns, the biomimetic structures and design logic that has been hidden among so much information.

Exclusively designed

The Spanish company Alfalite, based in Rociana del Condado (Huelva), has manufactured the six-sided Led cube, a pioneering work of engineering designed for a space 100% immersive, capable of changing the perception of reality, which has been integrated by engineering Vitelsa.

“It's something magical, a product designed exclusively for Casa Batlló that houses technology ahead of its time and whose expressive capacity allows it to transmit unique sensations and feelings to anyone.”, they point out.

Specifically, Gaudí Cube consists of a completely immersive area of ​​six internal faces of Led screens, con 10 meters long, 9,5 meters wide and 2,75 meters high, which has been built with 243m2 of panels Alfalite ModularPix Pro ORIM Cube.

This is a specific development for Casa Batlló, with a pixel pitch of 1,95 mm, a luminosity of 1.900 nits, 3.840Hz, offering a viewing angle of 175º (horizontal y vertical). This spectacular cube, with an average consumption of 30W, with HDR and low latency, It has twenty-four control systems NovaStar MCTRL4K who manage their almost 70 million pixels.

Patented technology

This system is also revolutionary because it is implemented with the fourth generation of ORIM technology. (optical resin injection module, optical injection in the LEDs), Alfalite development and patent that allows:

• Greater precision between modules: <0,05 mm.
• Horizontal and vertical viewing angle of 175º/175º.
• Superior anti-static electricity protection: ESD>10KV.
• Better fire resistance parameters.
• UL94-0 Compliance.
• Greater protection against shocks and water.
• Ease of cleaning and less deterioration.
• Shortest repair time on the market

To this development, Also added is the design and manufacturing by Alfalite of the automatic door mechanism with LED panels., integrated into one of the walls.

As explained by the company, “Automatic doors have such mechanical precision when closing, that does not allow us to differentiate the location of the door in its integration with the wall, leaving the Led panels completely free of GAP”.

Besides, Alfalite has also developed a double antistatic system to protect the LED assembly., both for discharge through the chassis of the floor panels, as environmental through a high-speed detection ionizer system and another protection system for the floor of walkable Led screens.

Gaudi Dome

For creation and implementation of ’10D Experience’, Gary Gautier, general manager of Casa Batlló, and his team have expanded 2.000 m2 the visit to this icon of the city of Barcelona and UNESCO Heritage.

Another of the new spaces is ‘Gaudi Dome’, an immersive show designed by David Pérez, whose audiovisual productions are carried out by the director Miguel Alonso, and the company Cyan Animatic, of which he is CEO.

Located in the old coal cellars of the building, 'The inspiration of genius’ created by Miguel Alonso offers a spectacle of audiovisual expressions and sensations. “It's a sensory expedition, a journey to the birth of genius and his first encounter with Nature. A vibrant show that makes the visitor participate in the creative experience”.

For this reason, Gaudí Dome is a video art installation with a rotating platform from which visitors can view into a dome, more than a thousand screens with volumetric digital projections (created with 38 manufacturer projectors Panasonic), which are complemented by twenty-one binaural audio channels that recreate the sounds of nature and sensory.

All of this creates an immersive environment for the visitor to reach the universe and imagination of the genius in all its dimensions with a unique cultural proposal..