66|A FONDO perceptible, shown and also severe. The new hotel use dictated keys: yesterday stones, but today’s comfort. The custo- mer demands, predictably high cultured tourists, are also important: warmth, traditional, without technological shocks. Therefore integrated lighting will be re- commended, with a hidden technology, with the least possible exposure. And the lighting which does not need to be technical, will be traditional scenogra- phic, like home. The concept that will include the wor- ks on the Sagrada Familia is appearing and formalizing to us clearly. It is also true that it is a very unusual type of construction, with very clear and precise owner, use and objectives. Starting from the end, we can say, without pom- posity, the lighting serves spirituality. This is manifested through some rules, liturgy, order and form of cult. Spiritual reality requires sensible and perceptible representation, that is, the symbolo- gy. Associations and conventions that produce emotions. Symbol and liturgy, reality and shape. The concretion is this: the architecture is to gather the parishioners and to ce- lebrate divine worship, led by the truths of faith to give glory to God and His saints. The building designed by Gaudí is a reflection of the Christian faith, a jo- urney expressed by the symbolism. The lighting for this purpose has the liturgy as host, the nature and the Mediterra- nean light as a reference. It is clear that these ideas are all original from Gaudí, reaching us, written by himself, or by his disciples and followers, mainly Isidre Puig Boada, Jordi Bonet i Armengol and the current chief architect Jordi Faulí i Oller Sometimes we also use the passive to re-argue, it is practical to contrast, and we can say clearly what we should not get, which is outside the conceptual boundaries. The Sagrada Familia is not “We know it, we have expe- rienced it; the- re is no good lighting pro- ject if it did not have before, a clear, massive, overwhelming, effective con- cept, to guide any decision over the project.” Fotógrafo: Jordi Folch