Les Cols Restaurant
With cabbages and without them
in a space that encourages
the creation of intimacy
and revelation of conversations,
we have eaten, we have drunk
and learned that time does not pass
if we can share it with the
friends who love another.
No one will ever take away
this evening, and the mood
of memories brought together
in a few hours.
Let us promise
to keep the quietude within us;
in a few years it will be
sweet company for us.
Miquel Martí i Pol 15-6-96
Architecture
Les Cols Restaurant or the evocation project
RCR Arquitectes
Evoking the past.
The rural house with its structure of three corridors, the large dining room,
the verandas on which to relax.
Evoking self-subsitence.
The market garden with its cabbages, the hens pecking in the coop,
the fruit trees in bloom.
Evoking an outdoor life.
Sitting on the veranda having lunch, surrounded
by air, plants, aromas, things to see, without losing
the mystery that is held within its thick walls.
Evoking sensuality.
Immersing oneself in a world filled with cava,
of a cascading plants, suggestive filters,
chairs in bloom.
Evoking culinary art.
The colours, flavours and different textures
and presented on a neutral base, a careful
and painstaking preparation for a moment of pleasure.
Evoking the future.
Where virtual images and real images
marge where steel replaces stone, clay, plaster and
water, where what is moist gives way to what its dry.
Evoking time.
Where the vision of the moments allows time
to be travestied in the direction of the future
trilogy of dining room front of house, and kitchen.