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Pere Renom

“We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision […] We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer.”
Oration on the Dignity of Man – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Gaudí and the natural forms in the Sagrada Família

published on 10.11.2010

To better understand the relationship between the architecture of Gaudi and the nature, the biologist Pere Renom climbs the canopy of a beech forest over 40 meters high and compare the structure with that of the central nave of the Sagrada Família, designed like a forest of stone. The hyperboloid domes topping the nave are […]

The Ports Mounts: land of goats and vultures

published on 22.10.2008

The reporter Pere Renom attends a spectacle of a safari: hundreds of vultures feast in one of the most extensive and wild mountainous areas of the Iberian Peninsula: the Ports. Also try to “catch” the emblematic animal of the natural park: the Hispanic goat.

Resisting the North wind

published on 20.09.2006

The reporter Pere Renom travels to the Alt Empordà and lives the north wind. To directly experience both air friction and the force of gravity, he parachutes from 4000 meters, but can not fall above 200 km/h. The wind is the air in movement. How do resist the north wind the farmers and nature in […]