Bodega Antion

The design proposal for the Bodega Antion is based on the attainment of two fundamental goals. On the one hand the attention dedicated to the site: a very irregular area with a difference in height of 10 metres, in which the volumes of the naves of the winery will be arranged so as to make the countryside accommodate them in a natural way. On the other, to make the administrative and commercial part a recognizable landmark for advertising purposes. The project aims to turn the winery into a vine in a vineyard, rooted in the ground, with the production taking place deep below it and with leaves on the outside allowing us to see and recognize it, offering us its clean and appetizing fruit.
Most of the volume is below ground, covered by a green surface that makes it possible to avoid an interruption of the landscape. This is the operational part of the winery, which has been placed below ground due to the necessity of a stable temperature. The grass above forms a thermally insulating layer, and regulates the evaporation of the irrigation water. These underground bodies surface from the land in various ways, depending on the function served by the volume. Only the tip of the area where the wine is processed, in the northern part, is therefore visible, while the entire southern volume with its ventilated facade protecting from direct sunlight is visible.
The area housing the warehouse where raw materials are stored and the wine is bottled, which is rectangular, protects the facade of the area where the wine is aged; the same system is used to protect the western facade as well as the eastern, which is below ground. The administrative, commercial and representative area, which also hosts 12 bedrooms, opens to the surrounding vineyards, while the Sierra de Toloño is visible in the background.
The hall where the wine is processed, a 30 metres tall cylinder, is the volume that represents the generating nucleus of the whole complex geometry of the project. It is in this hall that the process by gravity takes place, by means of a technological system of vertical movements with suspended tanks, which makes it possible to avoid pumping and thus to agitate and stress the wine. The outer walls of this area is surrounded by the halls housing the casks, whose structure based on concentric cut walls with parabolic voids vaunts a rich and singular image. The plan of the winery features a concentric development, from the processing hall to the abstract but linear hall where the wine is aged. Analogously, the administrative and commercial bodies, as well as the small hotel, are distributed as if driven by a centrifugal force towards north, as if reaching out to the landscape. The monolith in coloured but otherwise untreated concrete regulates the whole, only altered by the stainless steel crowning the large cylinder of the processing hall, coherently with the symbology of its function.