Gaudi and Barcelona Club

For the development of the building's plans, Gaudí designed 25 different facades. The definitive plans were presented to the Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona City Hall) on June 10, 1886.
The palace has a basement, four floors and a flat roof. In the basement there was a corral for the horses and a room for the groom and the harness keeper. To reach this area, Gaudí designed two ramps: a soft one for horses, and another, steeper one, helicoidal in shape, for the service.
The lower floor corresponds to the street level. It has two large doors in the shape of parabolic arches, which allow for easy access for carts and people.
The mezzanine is developed to each side of the main stairway. This is where, initially, Güell's office, the administrative office, the archive, the library and a small waiting or resting room were located.
Through the access room one enters the hall-the place where Güell held literary and artistic meetings, parties and concerts. A small chapel-oratory is hidden inside a closet and at the left there is a small organ.
Above the planta noble, there is a gallery next to the sitting room, the bedrooms, the dressing rooms, the toilets and the bathrooms for the tenants-that is, for the Güell family.
In the middle of the roof arises a 15-meter high cone, covered with glazed Marès stone. This is the continuation of the parabolic body that, along with four large parabolic openings, lights the main hall. But the most surprising aspect of this roof are the 20 chimneys with different shapes, made of brick, plastered partition or covered with pieces of ceramic, which provided ventilation and smoke exhaust.
The Palau Güell is currently the starting point of the Modernist Route of Barcelona.

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