The Hyperview Barcelona is the first stop for visitors at the Mirador Torre Glòries. Located on the tower’s -1 floor, it offers a way to explore the city through an immersive experience about Barcelona built around various artistic installations powered by real-time data from the city.
This dynamic space surprises visitors by revealing elements that make up the city (and all cities worldwide) but are often overlooked or imperceptible at first glance. Animals, weather, radio frequencies, sounds, technologies… all of these are the protagonists of this immersive experience, inviting visitors to understand their impact and essential role, both for cities and the people who inhabit them.
The Hyperview Barcelona combines art, music, real-time data, and large-format audiovisual projections to create five installations that deliver this immersive Barcelona experience, a fresh perspective beyond the city’s iconic views and landmarks. Additionally, some of these digital art pieces have a special appeal as they constantly evolve, powered by real-time data from the city, making this immersive experience of Barcelona slightly unique for each visitor.
Prologue is the first installation at Hyperview. It is a cube with screens on each of its faces, projecting short visual clips containing disconnected images and phrases about the city of Barcelona.
Through the display of architectural patterns, natural elements, and characteristic features of the city, Prologue surprises visitors with a very unconventional perspective of Barcelona.
The second installation is Barcelonians, an impressive collection of paper figures by the artist Joan Sallas, which pays tribute to the flora, fauna, insects, and microorganisms found in the city of Barcelona and its surroundings.
Through 132 paper figures suspended in display cases, Barcelonians introduces visitors to the city’s non-human inhabitants—a perspective far from anthropocentrism that emphasizes the idea that the city cannot be understood without the other organisms that live in it. Additionally, some of these paper figures are accompanied by small visual poems in their display cases, through which the species in question communicates with visitors and tells its story. Barcelonians offers a fresh perspective on the city through nature, the multiple species that inhabit it, and the connections humans establish with them.
A large-scale projection on a screen measuring more than 25 meters long high envelops the visitor to present the ever-changing atmospheres of the city: the sky, the wind, the sea, and the sounds. Using real-time data, Atmospheres immerses the viewer in the dynamic, and often imperceptible, activity of these elements that are part of Barcelona.
Four pieces make up this audiovisual ensemble, showcasing the beauty of Barcelona’s sky with its constellations and satellites, the constantly blowing winds and their strength, the changing sea and its relationship with the city’s activity, and the sounds produced by humans and nature that often go unnoticed.
The fourth installation at Hyperview Barcelona is Rhythms, a space featuring a holographic screen created by layering three screens so that visitors perceive the projection as a hologram before them.
Using real-time data from the city of Barcelona, Rhythms presents the imperceptible changes occurring in the city, such as the absorption of pollutants by the air, CO2 emissions resulting from human activity and infrastructure, and the electromagnetic spectrum surrounding the city, enabling the constant exchange of information through technology.
The fifth installation is not fixed in one location but is present throughout the visitor’s journey: the music. The soundtrack of Hyperview Barcelona was created by Maria Arnal and John Talabot, two musicians with a strong presence in Barcelona’s music scene.
This musical piece is self-generative and constantly evolves based on various real-time parameters from the city, such as temperature, wind speed, lunar phases, air particles, and more. It is a soundtrack that continuously changes according to the city’s conditions.
Its sound combines Maria Arnal’s voice with synthesizers to create an atmospheric and sensory environment that envelops the entire immersive experience of Hyperview Barcelona.
Hyperview Barcelona is an immersive experience about the city of Barcelona that you will not find anywhere else. It is a space that allows visitors to discover the city from a very unusual perspective, away from major monuments, main streets, or iconic buildings. The Hyperview gives prominence to everything that forms part of Barcelona but usually goes unnoticed, such as weather, sounds, animals, or the technologies that connect it.
Yes, all types of tickets to Mirador Torre Glòries include the immersive Hyperview Barcelona experience.
Yes. The installations in Hyperview Barcelona receive real-time information from the city, and much of the content shown to visitors is generated from this data to offer a unique immersive experience about Barcelona.
No, there is no time limit for the visit. We recommend taking your time to observe and enjoy each installation.
The installations in Hyperview Barcelona are self-explanatory and are also accompanied by different texts explaining the meaning of each one to visitors. Using the audioguide in this space is recommended to enhance the immersive experience.
Yes. The dynamic installations in the Hyperview are displayed in a loop, with a different language each time. The languages available are Catalan, Spanish, and English.
No. Hyperview Barcelona is designed as a sensory immersive experience about Barcelona to be enjoyed through the senses, without any physical interaction with the installations.
No. Tickets to Mirador Torre Glòries always include access to both the Hyperview Barcelona and the 360º Observation Deck on the 30th floor.
