Living Architecture: Casa Batlló is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site to be represented in the form of a dynamic NFT, using climate data from the city collected in real-time and showing ephemeris being celebrated on the building’s façade. The work was sold at Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale on May 10th with 10% of the proceeds donated to institutions that work with neurodiverse adults and children. On May 7, 2022, Anadol and his team projected a mapping version of the piece on the façade of Casa Batlló before nearly 50,000 attendees. The digital piece was also on public view at Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, New York. The process for this multilayered project began when Anadol created the first AI-based immersive room in 2021, “In the Mind of Gaudí,” a six-sided LED cube room inside Casa Batlló. For this 360-experience, Anadol collected a dataset of approximately one billion images consisting of Gaudí’s sketches, visual archives of the building’s history, academic archives, and publicly available photos of Casa Batlló found on various internet and social media platforms.
Refik Anadol Studio
Alex Morozov
Carrie He
Christian Burke
Daniel Seungmin Lee
Efsun Erkilic
Ho Man Leung
Nidhi Parsana
Pelin Kivrak
Raman K. Mustafa
Rishabh Chakrabarty
Toby Heinemann
Yufan Xie
Sound Design
Kerim Karaoglu
AV Performance
AV Performance
May 7, 2022
Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
Public Art Installation
April 30, 2022 – May 13, 2022
Rockefeller Plaza, New York, USA
NFT Auction
May 10, 2022
Christie’s, New York, USA