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Does form follow light? The Catalan vault in Torre Bellesguard

Does form follow light? The Catalan vault in Torre Bellesguard

Austria

Bea Fröis studied Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She graduated with the Master’s Thesis, „Gaudí’s unfinished church in the Colonia Güell, – an attempt at a reconstruction according to the urban context”.Having worked at the construction site of “La Sagrada Familia” in Barcelona for several months in 2000, she has researched in Gaudi’s form finding methodes. Based on the graphostatik calculations of Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, she researched and reconstructed a possible hanging model of “La Sagrada Familia”. Following this work, she calculated and built several other hanging models for exhibitions in museums in Barcelona and Austria.