Client: OneOcean Port Vell, Salamanca Group
Studio: El Equipo Creativo_ Oliver Franz Schmidt + Natali Canas del Pozo + Lucas Echeveste Lacy
Project: Team Néstor Veloso, Anna Martínez Salom, Cristòfol Tauler, Savina Radeva, Cristina Huguet, Anna Serra
Size: 198m2 
Location: Moll de la Barceloneta 1, Barcelona

Photography: Adrià Goula

The client, OneOcean Port Vell, asked El Equipo Creativo to create a place where you can enjoy cocktails in an elegant atmosphere whilst appreciating the beautiful waterside surroundings of Barcelona’s Port.

El Equipo Creativo translated this vision into an interior that recreates a wave about to break, immersing the customers in a marine atmosphere full of reflection and shade, and creating the interplay of light and shadow at dawn.

As the wave ′spills out′ it becomes something else, like sea foam, taking form through the use of reflective materials like marble slabs, metals and glass in the interiors. The colour ranges from the deep blue of the sea to the white of sea foam, culminating in the white concrete lattice fa?ade of the restaurant’s exterior.

One single material was used on all the surfaces (floors, walls and ceiling) to unify the space and heighten the sensation of being enveloped by the wave. Ceramic tile, designed especially for the project and handmade by local artisans, echoes the ocean and embodies the intrinsic qualities of Mediterranean architecture.