CLOS
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Name: Winery
Location: Republic of South Africa
Year: 2020
CLOS
RU
The project is a metaphor of an ancient wine-making polis under the bright southern sun. The city is structured as a complex fabric made up of streets, squares, courtyards, and gardens under a minimalistic canopy.
The concept of the city derives from Hortus conclusius, a dream of a beautiful garden behind a snow-white wall. The snow-white wall is represented as an ephemeral shell of transparent glass and a roof covering the whole complex: a thin sheet floating on thin streamlined columns.
The winery here is not just an industrial building: it is a multi-use structure with tourism, business, and social functions. On the outside, nothing gives away the complexity and richness of the internal structure: the only thing we see is a lean elongated object on the horizon. The elongated shape re-tracing the relief at its highest point arose as the only shape appropriate for this location.
Inside the complex, visitors will find themselves in a refreshing oasis. They can spend a day or two—or even a week—at the winery and will never be short of something fun to do: they can enjoy their beautiful hotel room, join a wine tasting, take a learning course, visit the restaurant or the cheesemaking shop, listen to open-air music concerts in the garden, and then go home well-rested and content.
The structure has two levels: the production functions on the underground floor and a unique observation deck on the ground floor, from where visitors can watch wine being made.
The materials used in the project emphasize its minimalistic approach and greatly contribute to the leisure function, avoiding loud and bright colors and textures. Light-colored concrete, glass, wood, fine white gravel, and an abundance of grass—it is an exhaustive list of materials required in a complex and unexpected spatial composition.
In a unique approach to the project, the concept provides for future development of the winery: it is going to be a comprehensive agricultural enterprise comprising a cheese shop and vegetable and fruit gardens.
TEAM
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Liza Brilliantova
Alexander Meshin
Alexandra Molodcova