A space to be surprised. Enigma Restaurant by RCR Arquitectes
18/07/2017.
[BCN] Spain
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
Description of the project by Enigma
After a year and a half of complex works, Enigma finally opens its doors to few meters of which was its embryo.
Although the team, philosophy and conceptual potential come from that small place, Enigma is not born as an ad hoc evolution of the finger food line and cocktail created in 41st, is something more. In an ethereal space and apparently imposing extended in more than 700 sqm, Enigma raises a new way of living the experience of the diner in a restaurant.
The experience.-
The versatility of the space allows the 7 areas of Enigma should not always keep the same order in the experience or that at the same time of the year the users live all the stops of the itinerary.
The call.-
When confirming their reservation, the guest receives a code to access the restaurant. Because the experience is performed in different spaces with a specific timing, the reservation team stresses the importance of arriving at the time or to notify the restaurant. This is to ensure the same experience for all diners.
As in all his projects, Albert has always given special attention to the act of welcome.
The customer enters in the door the code provided in the reservation confirmation and, after being received by the hostess, you are invited to move to a neutral space that advances the colors and materials present throughout the premises: metal, ceramics and glass. In this space, the restaurant looks for the diner to relax and decontaminate of the exterior so that he is predisposed to the experience he is about to live.
In the welcome speech, the restaurante briefly explains what the experience will consist of.
The other areas that confirm Enigma are: the Cava, the Bar, the Iron, the Dinner or the 41st.
The service.-
The room service, headed by Cristina Losada, has had to face different challenges due to the itinerant distribution of the room.
Picking up the witness of the friendly language that began in the 41st, the near treatment of the room service counteracts with the imposing presence of the place. The different people, both room and kitchen, who will meet the diner throughout the night, will invite you to relax, to have a good time, breaking the serious and distant service scheme. Without knowing it, the diner will create a link with the whole team, ending the experience with the impression that it has been introduced to the Enigma family.
Enigma, space.-
The work, conceived by RCR Arquitectes' architecture studio, has been thought globally, from interior space, lighting, furniture, music and costumes.
The architects have managed to capture in this architectural work the idea of the concept that Albert has had in mind since the beginning of the year 2000, but that he has been able to shape it now, after a personal maturity but mainly professional derived from 6 years of intense work with the opening of the other 5 concepts that make up elBarri.
In the words of Rafael Aranda de RCR Arquitectes "an evanescent, deep and timeless landscape has been created, so that the person disconnects from the world that surrounds us and is allowed to take to the creative world of Albert"
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, work together since 1988 under the name RCR ARQUITECTES in Olot. They are Premio Nacional de Cultura en Arquitectura 2005 by Generalitat de Catalunya, Chevaliers de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Republique Française in 2008, honorary members by the AIA American Institute of Architecture 2010 and International Award 2011 "Belgian Building Awards". Since 1989 are architects advisors at Parque Natural de la Zona Volcánica de la Garrotxa and have been teachers of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture and Project. They have won different international competitions (the latter, the Waalsekrook media library in Belgium, the Soulages museum in France, Hofheide's crematorium in Belgium and The Edge Bussiness Bay in Dubai). They have received awards in his work among which two finalists positions in the awards of the European Union Mies Van der Rohe. Some of their awarded works have been exhibited in different events and published in several monographs.
RCR has shown the ability to think and transform that bring teamwork and the promotion of cultural initiatives from Bunka Foundation and workshops within the LAB-A in the Espacio Barberí, and have proven that it is possible to do international architecture from a rural environment, which is what has stimulated his imagination.
Following the work of RCR there is a philosophy which works for harmony between humans and nature. The most advanced technologies and materials such as steel or glass, with established rhythms and light that acts in opposition to each, are those that allow RCR this return to the essence of space that is the subject of architecture.