-In 1961 Justo Gallego Martínez started building a cathedral by himself on a plot of land he inherited on the outskirts of madrid.
-There never were formal plans for the building, which locally was called "the cathedral from junk".
- Justo initially just levelled the ground and mapped out the ground-works on site. The building has evolved over time in response to opportunity and inspiration.
- Most of the building materials and tools used for construction are recycled. This includes everyday objects and excess construction materials donated by construction companies and a nearby brick factory. For instance, the columns have been moulded with old petrol drums.
- The building work has been carried out without any crane.
- The outer dimensions of the main building are 20 by 50 metres (66 by 164 ft), with a total built-up area of about 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft). Below the main building there is a crypt and adjacent there is a complex of minor chapels, cloisters, lodgings and a library. The dome of the main building (modelled on St. Peter's Basilica) is about 40 metres (130 ft) in height, about 12 metres (39 ft) in diameter.
Some pics of the interior look really sketchy.
What do you think?
some pics of the inside
I wouldn't go into a place that has columns like those
Unbelievable.
This is all bullshit anyways. You literally can't build a place like that without tons of help and money. Basically this wannawhite homosexual saw the cathedrals in France and Germany and got giga butt hurt, so he smoked some hash and started grabbing junk to build with. He got enough pity from gays like you guys, so he persisted and now we have this monument of junk. I don't speak for God, but if I was God, I'd probably be like "okay man, what is this? This does not honor me". But then again, maybe I'm wrong. Either way, like it always is on Earth, we humans must suffer for God, so if suffering equates having to look at this thing even one more time, then I shall suffer for God.
Spain has a lot of cathedrals , he didnt need to go outside his own región to watch Not so far away the Segovia cathedral
Looks like a deathtrap.
That's what the city of Los Angeles said about the Watts Towers-
"...the City of Los Angeles condemned the structure and ordered it all to be destroyed. Actor Nicholas King and film editor William Cartwright visited the site in 1959, and purchased the property from Rodia's neighbor for $2,000 in order to preserve it. The City's decision to pursue expediting the demolition was still in force. The towers had already become famous and there was opposition from around the world. King, Cartwright, architects, artists, enthusiasts, academics, and community activists formed the Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts. The Committee negotiated with the city to allow for an engineering test to establish the safety of the structures and avoid their demolition...
The test took place on October 10, 1959. For the test, steel cable was attached to each tower and a crane was used to exert lateral force, all connected to a 'load-force' meter. The crane was unable to topple or even shift the towers with the forces applied, and the test was concluded when the crane experienced mechanical failure.
Bud Goldstone and Edward Farrell were the engineer and architect leading the team. The stress test registered 10,000 lbs. The towers are anchored less than 2 feet (0.61 m) in the ground, and have been highlighted in architectural textbooks, and have changed the way some structures are designed for stability and endurance.
...The structures suffered little from the 1994 Northridge earthquake in the region, with only a few pieces shaken loose. "
When are they gonna eminent domain him and turn it into a mosque?
Impossible to say just based on looks, consider that structures that are planned, engineered, inspected and have immaculate looking construction/finishes using brand new materials fail catastrophically with some regularity.
FWIW Antoni Gaudi's buildings often had a similar wonky look (pic related), used lots of repurposed/scrap materials are were conceived with minimal paper plans-
'Gaudí always preferred to work with casts and scale models or even improvise on-site as a work progressed. Reluctant to draw plans, only on rare occasions did he sketch his works—in fact, only when required by authorities."
Another lesser known figure in the same vein is Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who issued manifestos declaring that straight lines are "godless and immoral" and "something cowardly drawn with a rule, without thought or feeling" and that "an uneven floor is a melody to the feet".
He was pretty out there as were his building designs, but they only look crazy as far as structural integrity goes.
>He was pretty out there as were his building designs
awwww yeauh we kunt house up in here
>An uneven floor is a melody to the feet
Yeah, frick old people, crippled and anything that uses wheels to move.
Yeah, picrel should be perfectly flat so all those people and wheels can use it
Not understanding the difference between flat and level.
LMAO
Headache just looking at that crap.
>This is so cool omg!
>>This is so cool omg!
Literally never said anything remotely like that, only that the structural integrity of his designs has stood the test of time in spite of the crazy outward appearance.
How sad does a life have to be that you take time to make shit up to post meaningless jabs at to make yourself feel better?
seek help
jej btfo
Black person tier
>hundertwasser
>unknown
??? maybe to burgers
How sad that you feel compelled to lie in order to have an opportunity to seethe about Americans...
or are you honestly so stupid that you can't differentiate between
>lesser known
(what was actually posted)
and
>unknown
which was never stated...?
>Impossible to say just based on looks
impossible to say what?
That you are an idiot who didn't read or comprehend the thread title, which is a question?
No, I just said that, so that can't be it.
>Reluctant to draw plans, only on rare occasions did he sketch his works—in fact, only when required by authorities."
Based
Idk it's been standing since 1961 and still here. Sure the columns like shit, but technically as long as the required load bearing material odd Ina straight line, what's a few extra uneven bumps on the edges? (You know, like maybe a 1ft diameter column would do, but he's got a wavy 2ft dia column that's at least in line in the middle).
Hard to tell you it's gonna be safe without knowing any numbers. But all I can say is it's still standing and most things get fricked by earthquakes and tornados anyway, so to me the worst thing about olare those godawful murals
you mean the bricks on the outside?
>a cathedral
>no Christian iconography
It is a temple to Satan and will be destroyed soon in the great purge..
i guess it was inspired by barcelona cathedral it looks similar and i dint remember the insides of it having christian iconography either
It honestly looks stupid, and if you're gonna devote your life to building a cathedral, you could at least not build it to look like shit. This looks like something a tweaker would build.
Overall 3/10 I wouldn't want this in my city or near where I live. Each of you will say the same thing, but four chin is becoming cucked these days with Black person loving maga boomers and brown people, and even the whites are all homosexuals who simp over shit like this -- it's stupid. This is not something you should devote your life too. Imagine if he had the white man's ability to plan ahead, he could have made a modest marble temple, spent that time building something worthwhile.
homosexuals and simps will say I'm wrong, true chadanian whites will see that I am right.
>Muh cathedral
Literally isn't one single cross or shrine dedicated to God. This is a demons den, the likes of which will surely captivate cucks like you.
Sorry, you have to be at least nine years old to post here.
>Is it safe
Not again!
Aaaaaah!
Even lesser known is "Bishop Castle" in Colorado.
Also super scary and sketchy.
I'm a structural engineer and that thing is one eroded support column from collapsing.
I'm curious. If structural engineers were hired to make sure this won't collapse. How would they go about doing it?
The same way actual structural engineers have done them since they were invented in the middle ages and flourished in the gothic era and were given their unique descriptive name that homosexuals larping as structural engineers on 4chinz don't know so they call them "support columns", LOFL
So "sketchy" that the larger, heavier and far more horizontal all masonry ones with no steel reinforcement in picrel have been standing since the 13th century.
God I love flying buttresses.
gothic cathedrals weren t built by engineers, matter of fact master builders didn t knew physics, they actually build them by instinct, they had no way of calculating the loads
>only the ancient Greeks knew math, no one else
Geometry and surveying has existed for thousands of years, but modern civil engineering was born in the 1700s with Coulomb's studies on soil failure. From that point on we could calculate forces acting on a structure from the ground up. Everything before then was tradies feeling their way through the process.
Kek
>Will stone stably stacked on itself stand?
>Yes
Wtf are you talking about
The only things that would make it collapse would be if the mortar was improperly mixed or if they didn't dig down the 12" to solid rock for the foundation
Stone is very difficult to frick up with many ancient buildings just drystacked and then mortared later for comfort
This was my first thought as well when seeing that guys "Cathedral" above. I've been to Bishop's Castle several times as I don't live too far from it. Pretty cool to look around. Get's a bit sketchy the higher you go. The welds freak me out more than the masonry work.
not as scary as that church made out of human bones
You are all pussys standing in the shadow of greater men