Outer side of the undulating bench in Park Güell

Park Güell was a project for a garden city designed along the lines of the ones that already existed in England. Count Güell commissioned Gaudí to create a housing estate on one of Barcelona’s hills in the Gràcia district. However, the urban development was a failure and not a single plot of land was sold or built on, apart from the prototype house in which Gaudí lived until he moved his home to the workshops at the Sagrada Família. The park and prototype house are all that remains of the original plan.
This undulating bench acts as a boundary and balustrade for the park square and has a water collection system. It is decorated with trencadís, the tile-shard mosaic technique that Gaudí used to give surfaces colour.