This document provides an overview of famous architect Antoni Gaudi and the principles of Vastu Shastra architecture. It discusses some of Gaudi's most prominent works, including Park Güell, Casa Milà, Sagrada Familia, and Casa Batlló. For each work, it describes key design elements and how they drew inspiration from nature. It also provides a brief introduction to Vastu Shastra, including its origins in ancient India, the five basic elements of design, and how spatial orientation is used based on energy flows. Examples of modern buildings incorporating Vastu principles are highlighted.

1. Antoni Gaudi
and
Vastu Shastra
Prepared by:
Anupam Sthapit(073/BAE/205)
Bibek Ghimire(073/BAE/211)
Prashansa Bhatta (073/BAE/223)
Sanam Maharjan(073/BAE/229)
Shristi Bhandari(073/BAE/235)
Stoj Shakya(073/BAE/241)
Sudip Bhattarai(073/BAE/247)
Submitted to:
Luna Bajracharya

2. Report on Antonio Gaudi’s Famous Works and Vaastu
Shastra
_PROLOGUE
Antoni Gaudi was a Spanish Catalan architect...
• He is the best representative of Catalan
modernism...
• Most Gaudi's works are situated in the
Catalan capital of Barcelona...
• Gaudi is also one of the forerunner of Art
Nouveau...
• Gaudi especially pays attention to nature and
the importance that he attached to geometric
forms...
Antoni Gaudi

3. Report on Antonio Gaudi’s Famous Works and Vaastu
Shastra
_PROLOGUE
“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore,
buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. “
- Antonio Gaudi

4. Case study on Gaudi's Buildings
PARK GÜELL ( 1900-1914)
CASA MILA
SAGRADA FAMILIA
CASA BATLLO
“Nothing is invented,
for it's written in
nature first.”
- Anonymous

5. PARK GÜELL ( 1900-1914)
• Park Güell is a municipal garden area located in
Barcelona, Spain.
• The Parc Guell is located on Mount Caramel Turó on
the hillside overlooking the sea...
• Guell designed this park for the Guell family...
• Park Güell is one of the major parks in Barcelona
and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "

6. Main Entrance:

7. Main entrance:
• The two houses on either
side of the entrance,
Gaudi, giving free rein to
his fantasy was inspired
by the story of Hansel
and Gretel for your
design.
• Both roofs are
surmounted by domes
resembling tiny original
the ormof a mushroom

8. Main Staircase:
• The double staircase has
walls on each side with
crenelated tops and sides of
checkerboard tiles. Part way
up the staircase the head of
a serpent is seen against a
background medallion with
the coat of arms of Catalan.
• Farther up the stairway the
viewer encounters the
famous dragon or lizard
with "scales" of tiles.

9. Main Staircase:

10. Hypostyle chamber:
• A large area covered, supported
by 86 Doric columns,
• The roof supports the floor of the
public square above it. The
columns are hollow in order to
provide a channel for rain water
to the cistern.
• “This is a forest of 86 stone
columns, some of which lean like
mighty trees bent by the weight
of time, To the left curves a
gallery whose twisted stonework
columns and roof give the effect
of a cloister beneath tree roots “

11. Hypostyle chamber:

12. Public Square:
• At about 160 feet by 120 feet, half
of it is supported by solid ground,
the other half is supported on the
Doric columns
• This large square is used for
cultural celebrations and popular. It
connects the building with nature,
an integral principle of art
nouveau.”
• The unique shape of the serpentine
bench enables the people sitting on
it to converse privately,

13. Public Square:

14. CASA MILA:
• Casa Mila, , popularly known
as La Pedrera or "open
quarry", a reference to its
unconventional rough-hewn
appearance
• Modernist building made
during the Art Nouveau
period.
• He was a commissioned
Gaudi to Mrs. Sigismund rose
Milan. Its original function
was exclusively residential.

15. Main Facade:
• Viewed from the outside the
building has three parts:
The main body of the six-
storey blocks with winding
stone floors
Two floors set a block back
with a different curve, similar
to waves, a smoother texture
and whiter color, and with
small holes that look like
embrasures, and
Finally the body of the roof.

16. Main Facade:

17. Hall and courtyards:
• The building uses a completely original
solution to solve the issue of a lobby
being too closed and dark.
• Its open and airy courtyards provide a
place of transit and are directly visible to
those accessing the building.

18. Roof and Chimneys:
• On the rooftop there are six
skylights/staircase exits twenty-
eight chimneys in several
groupings, two half-hidden
vents whose function is to
renew the air in the building,
and four domes that discharged
to the facade.
• The stepped roof of La Pedrera,
called "the garden of warriors"
by the poet Pere Gimferrer
because the chimneys appear
to be protecting the skylights

19. Roof and Chimneys:

20. SAGRADA FAMILIA
• The Basilica Temple Expiator de la
Sagrada Familia is the largest
unfinished Roman Catholic
Church in the world.
• The Basilica of the Sagrada
Familia was the inspiration of a
bookseller, Josip Maria Boca Bella
Guell designed this park for the
Guell family...
• Combination of Gothic
Architecture, Catalan Modernism
and curvilinear Art
Nouveau forms.

21. Main Facade
• The Church will have three grand façades: the Nativity
façade to the East, the Passion façade to the West, and the
Glory façade to the South (yet to be completed).

22. Main Facade:

23. The Nativity Façade
• Dedicated to the birth of Jesus, it
is decorated with scenes
reminiscent of elements of life.
• The three porticos are separated
by two large columns,
• Base of each lies a turtle or a
tortoise (one to represent the
land and the other the sea; each
are symbols of time as something
set in stone and unchangeable).
• Two chameleons can be found at
either side of the façade, and are
symbolic of change.

24. Nativity Facade

25. The Passion façade
• Built over the elliptical plan, were
finished in 1976.
• It is especially striking for its spare,
gaunt, tormented characters,
including emaciated figures of
Christ being scourged at the pillar;
and Christ on the Cross
• He wanted to "break" arcs and
"cut" columns, and to use the effect
of chiaroscuro (dark angular
shadows contrasted by harsh rigid
light) to further show the severity
and brutality of Christ's sacrifice.

26. The Passion façade

27. Glory Façade (In Phase)
• It will be decorated with
demons, idols, false gods,
heresy and schisms, etc.
Purgatory and death will also be
depicted, the latter using tombs
along the ground.
• The portico will have seven
large columns dedicated to
spiritual gifts. At the base of the
columns there will be
representations of the Seven
Deadly Sins, and at the top, The
Seven Heavenly Virtues.

28. Plan:
• Gaudi intended that a
visitor standing at the main
entrance be able to see
the vaults of the nave,
crossing, and apse; thus
the graduated increase in
vault loft. Even detail-level
work such as the iron
railings for balconies and
stairways are full of
curvaceous elaboration.

29. Spires:
• 18 spires
• Twelve Apostles, the Virgin Mary,
the four Evangelists and, tallest of
all, Jesus Christ.
• Surmounts:
1.a winged bull (Saint Luke), a winged
man (Saint Matthew), an eagle
(Saint John), and a winged lion (Saint
Mark).
2.a giant cross; total height (170
meters (560 ft)

33. Casa Batllo

34. General Information:
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Owner: Josep Batllo i Casanovas (textile manufacturer)
Masterpiece of Art Nouveau Architecture.
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Designed by
Emili Sala in
1877
Renovated by
Antoni Gaudi in
1905

35. Most emblematic project of Gaudi’s career.
Both aesthetic and functional.
Each and every part of the building is inspired
from the nature.
Common theory about Casa Batllo is that is pays
tribute to the legend of the Catalonian patron
Saint, Saint George, and his battle with the
dragon.

36. Façade:
Decorated with a collage of stone,
glass, ceramics tiles, flowing
stonework and large irregular
windows .
Called ‘house o yawn’ because of
the large windows.
Windows is useful functionality
wise.
Called ‘house of bones’ because
the pillars in the façade looks like
bones and the balconies resembles
the skull.
Outside of this building represents
the legend of Sant Jordi (Saint
George).

37. Roof:
Roof is arched and scaly
which resembles to the
back of a dragon.
Sculptures in the roof is
chimneys connected to
kitchen and fire place.
The spire like feature on the
roof represent the sword of
St. George, which has been
plunged into the back of
the dragon.

39. Attic:
Building facilities such as
laundry and store room.
Functionality wise this floor
serves as thermal regulator,
protecting lower floors from
changing temperature of
outside elements.
In terms of design, white color
creates a sense of cleanliness
and the parabolic arches
represents the ribs of the
dragon.

40. Light well:
provides the natural illumination, heat and air
ventilation.
Design is inspired from ocean. So, different shades of
blue is used in it.

41. Noble floor:
Floor for Batllo family. This floor is dominated by the forms
of nature.
Patio:
Direct access from the Noble floor.

42. Vastu Shastra
-science of dwelling and architecture
-originated from Indus valley
civilization

43. •Ancient belief based on geometric patterns (yantra),
symmetry and directional alignments.
•Inclusion of five basic elements (Pancha
maha-bhootas):
1. Fire
2. Air
3. Water
4. Earth
5. Space

44. Geometrical alignment of elements

45. Form of energy representing elements
FORM OF ENERGY ELEMENTS
SOLAR FIRE
WIND AIR
RAIN WATER
GRAVITATIONAL/
MAGNETIC
EARTH
SOUND SPACE

46. VASTUPURUSHA MANDALA
Mathematical and
diagrammatic basis for
generating design.
Metaphysical plan of a
building that
incorporates the
course of the heavenly
bodies and
supernatural forces.

47. Orientation of function

48. Vastu house by Khosla Associates, India
The placement of
spaces in the house
are in synch with the
plan of the Vastu
Purusha Mandala
(the ancient Indian
science of
orientation and
placement).

49. The main areas of the
house according to the
elements – Master
bedroom in the Earth zone
(SW), kitchen in the Fire
zone (SE), and the pool and
entrance in the Water zone
and Air zones (N and NE), -
even positions of doors, the
direction of the stairs,
location of beds, wardrobes
and desks and the positions
of the wc’s in the
bathrooms had to be in
accordance with the
correct energy flows.

50. Open space at the centre as per
the Vastushastra demands

52. THE TEMPLE OF SRIRANGAM
The temple of Srirangam
is situated at 10 degrees
52’N and 78 degrees 42’ E
towards the southern tip
of IndiaSrirangam
(formerly Vellithirumutha
gramam) is an island and a
part of the city of
Tiruchirappalli, in South
India.

53. -Symmetric in plan
-open space in middle of the plot
-all the openings aligned in correct position
-water body(twin rivers:Couvery and Coleroon)at north east

54. JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA(1986-1996):
• This master piece was designed by the
famous Indian architect, Charles
Correa.
• Plan is inspired by the original city plan
of Jaipur consisting of nine squares
with central square left open.
• Concept of nine squares is termed as
Navagrah .Each square was linked to
the planet as per the characteristics of
the particular planet and its
astrological values and the
functionality of the square.

55. JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA(1986-1996):
PLANETS COLOUR QUALITY FUNCTION
Venus White Art Drama
Jupiter Lemon yellow Knowledge Library(meditation)
Ascending
node(rahu)
Iridescent Devourer(Restorer) Documentation
Saturn Earth red Knowledge Museum-II
Descending node
(Ketu)
Brown black Anger Museum-I
Mercury Golden yellow Education Lok kala Kendra
Moon Milky white Heart Cafeteria
Mars Red Power Administration

56. JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA(1986-1996):

57. JAIPUR CITY PALACE:
• Old Jaipur which is based on a Prastar
type town described in several texts.
• Built in 1727 AD, the final form and
structure of the town shows a skillful
manipulation, according to the
Shastra's prescriptions, of the square
mandala right from the whole to the
smallest of the plots, the location of
activities, and distribution of the caste
groups.

59. CONCLUSION
Thus, in contrasts to this report it can be said that Antoni Gaudi
was an masterpiece and the best known practitioner of Catalan
Modernism. It as found that Gaudi's works had a highly
individualized and distinctive style with most of his works
located in Barcelona. Today his work attracts a global following
with some of the most distinctive, idiosyncratic, and
recognizable designs of all time due to the use of Art Noveau
style of architecture.
The second phase of the report made the major statement of
astrology being liked with Architecture. Vaastu Shastra, a system
which lasted near the beginning of Indus civilization still made
impacts on design this late. Thus it was clear that form definition
could be liked even with traditional means like Vaastu Shaastra.

60. Thank You!

61. IOE , CENTRAL CAMPUS _ INA STHAPIT