Les Cols Restaurant Marquee
Olot, Girona, Spain · 2011
Photo · Photo by Hisao Suzuki
A precedent for a lightweight, catenary-curved canopy suspended between stone walls to create a sunken, glass-enclosed pavilion that seamlessly integrates with the surrounding landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The roof structure dips so low it almost touches the natural grade of the surrounding embankment.
Materials
- steel-cables
- stone-masonry
- glass
- turf
- gravel
Visual identifiers
- catenary-canopy
- stone-retaining-wall
- glass-pavilion
- sunken-garden
- suspended-roof
Style tags
- minimalist
- organic-integration
- tectonic
Visual tags
- landscape-integration
- catenary-structure
- outdoor-pavilion
- sunken-courtyard
- lightweight-canopy
- Geometry
- A sweeping, catenary-curved canopy structure suspended between a heavy stone retaining wall and a sloped, gravel-lined embankment, creating a low-slung, concave profile that mimics the natural valley topography.
- Facade system
- Minimalist glass curtain wall with slender vertical framing.
- Structural guess
- Tensioned steel cables anchored to heavy stone masonry abutments.
- Spatial scale
- Low-profile, human-scaled pavilion that sits below the surrounding tree canopy and natural ground level.
- Lighting
- Dappled sunlight filters through mature deciduous trees, casting soft shadows across the lawn and highlighting the reflective glass enclosure beneath the canopy.
- Atmosphere
- A serene, sheltered sanctuary nestled quietly into the earth beneath a delicate, sweeping canopy.
- Environmental context
- Set within a lush, wooded valley in Olot, Spain, surrounded by dense green hillsides and integrated directly into the natural topography.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from an open, grassy lawn into a semi-enclosed, subterranean pavilion sheltered beneath a light, draped canopy, offering a highly integrated indoor-outdoor connection.
- Composition rhythm
- The horizontal sweep of the catenary roof contrasts with the vertical rhythm of slender tree trunks and glass mullions.
- Style reading
- Poetic regional minimalism
- Program
- Restaurant event marquee or pavilion
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- steel-cables, stone-masonry, glass, turf, gravel
- Visual identifiers
- catenary-canopy, stone-retaining-wall, glass-pavilion, sunken-garden, suspended-roof
- Style tags
- minimalist, organic-integration, tectonic
- Visual tags
- landscape-integration, catenary-structure, outdoor-pavilion, sunken-courtyard, lightweight-canopy
- Geometry
- A sweeping, catenary-curved canopy structure suspended between a heavy stone retaining wall and a sloped, gravel-lined embankment, creating a low-slung, concave profile that mimics the natural valley topography.
- Facade system
- Minimalist glass curtain wall with slender vertical framing.
- Structural guess
- Tensioned steel cables anchored to heavy stone masonry abutments.
- Spatial scale
- Low-profile, human-scaled pavilion that sits below the surrounding tree canopy and natural ground level.
- Lighting
- Dappled sunlight filters through mature deciduous trees, casting soft shadows across the lawn and highlighting the reflective glass enclosure beneath the canopy.
- Atmosphere
- A serene, sheltered sanctuary nestled quietly into the earth beneath a delicate, sweeping canopy.
- Environmental context
- Set within a lush, wooded valley in Olot, Spain, surrounded by dense green hillsides and integrated directly into the natural topography.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from an open, grassy lawn into a semi-enclosed, subterranean pavilion sheltered beneath a light, draped canopy, offering a highly integrated indoor-outdoor connection.
- Composition rhythm
- The horizontal sweep of the catenary roof contrasts with the vertical rhythm of slender tree trunks and glass mullions.
- Style reading
- Poetic regional minimalism
- Program
- Restaurant event marquee or pavilion
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape