originality is returning to the origin

La Sagrada Familia(the Holy Family) is without question the upmost pinnacle of my architectural work and career. Although I never got to see it finished because of the sheer magnitude of the whole project, this tribute to God was still planned by my hand. It is a wonder, people say, that I usually liked improvising and adding things during construction itself during the making of most buildings. However, this wasn't the case with the church. With such a grand construction, not many improvisations could be made and everything had to be planned out perfectly. And so, I began sketching out and drawing plans and making 3D models. One of these three-dimensional models was the one I constructed with bags of sand tied to ends of strings, and lots of string of course. Once I began making this model, I started adding strings where I saw fit, tying some to each other, shortening some, and adding other things. And then I finally ended up with an upside-down model of the church....

"Originality is returning to the origin."   For me, this origin was nature. I viewed the natural world as perfect, a creation from which I drew inspiration- learning from it, in fact. Nowhere is this connection more clearly visible than in my masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia. The Sagrada Familia represents the pinnacle of my career. He used his other works as testing grounds for structures and techniques that would eventually be implemented into this final project. The elements found in my nature-inspired work, which is sometimes referred to as biomimetic  architecture. Elements inspired by nature include but are not limited to: catenary arches inspired by the spine of a snake, spiral stairways inspired by snail shells, conoid-shaped roofs,  glass panes decorated similar to bone tissue or that of a sponge, and a new type of tree-inspired column. T he functional b...