Barcelona's Sagrada FamÃlia cathedral was transformed during the city's La Mercè festival when Montreal media studio, Moment Factory bathed the iconic building in a psychedelic sea of colours for a 15-minute projection mapping show. Content was inspired by architect, Antoni GaudÃ's original colour sketches and you can't help but feel this is how Gaudà imagined his unfinished masterpiece.
A team of twelve used Moment Factory’s own X-Agora software to control sound, light and video for the mesmerising show, played out to a crowd of 32,000 people.
Swiss company, Skynight provided technical support as 16 Christie Roadster projectors, 13 computers and 25 moving lights were employed for the highlight of a festival dubbed Barcelona’s biggest party.
Gaudà was working on the Sagrada FamÃlia when he was killed after being struck by a Barcelona tram in 1926. The cathedral, now a UNESCO world heritage site, is still unfinished with completion expected in 2026.