Project Failure: Sagrada Familia

Barcelona, Spain

Subject: Project ManagementProf: Prof. Doubman

Date: 2.05.2013By: Daria Chizhova

Content

Story of Creation

Failure Factors

Bibliography

Story of Creation (I)1st version

Catalan bookseller and editor Josep Maria Bocabella

After a visit to the Vatican in 1872 he returned with the intention of building a church

He was founder of Asociación Espiritual de Devotos de San José

2nd version

Young Priest Magnani came to Bocabella with an idea of building grandiose temple

Only on people’s donations to show how strong is their love to God

So Bocabella anounced this in his magazine

Story of Creation (II)

The construction

started in 1882

The architect

was Francisco de

Paula del Villar

BUT he wanted to

build a classic gothic revival church,

which was not

pretentious enough

Villar refused to

build something different

Story of Creation (III)

Gaudi began to work only

after a year

First he was

building the

projected building,

BUT

At a certain

moment he

stopped and

decide to change

the design

completely

Design was more complicat

ed, demanded more money

and time

The clients

refused to pay

Story of Creation (IV)

5! years later an anonymous person donated 500 000 pesetas

So Gaudi was continuing the construction

He increased the height from 120 to 170 meters

Story of Creation (V)

After 18 years, the XX century came and the time given for the construction ran away, but Gaudi was only working on first façade

Also the money finished again

Gaudi let go his salary, then started to invest his own money

Story of Creation (VI)

June 7 1926 Antonio Gaudi was hit by the tram, he died in 2 days…

On the subject of the extremely long construction period, Gaudí is said to have remarked: "My client is not in a hurry”

Story of Creation (VI)

His work was undertaken by Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, his apprentice

Until 1936 – Spanish Civil War

One week after start of the war antireliogous fanatics put Sagrada Familia on fire and it destroyed all drafts, drawings and wooden model

Story of Creation (VII)In 1952 government decided to complete construction to attract tourists

The current director and son of Lluís Bonet (Gaudi’s assistant), Jordi Bonet i Armengol has been introducing computers into the design and construction process since the 1980s

He announced the date of completion - 2026

Failure Factors

Haven’t agreed on building requirements => architect change

Involved changes of design, which were not planned

Ran out on budget for that

No deadlines were followed

Fire destroyed the drafts for the building

Civil War

Overall, no planning involved until modern technologies

No risk assessment

No control over Gaudi

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_familia

http://www.vatanym.ru/?an=vs209_art1

http://zhurnaly.biz/1734-gala-biografiya-2-fevral-2013.html

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