Migration
Formafantasma area: Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi, also known as “Formafantasma”. Where does the name come from? Formafantasma: We are very fond of our name, Formafantasma, because we chose it even before opening a firm and moving to Holland, wh …
area 117 – wineries
editoriale/editorial Le cantine: da parti di edificio a porzioni di paesaggio text by Marco Casamonti scenari di architettura/architectural scenario Virai Arquitectos/Bodega Institucional La Grajera Foster + Partners/ …
Wineries: from parts of buildings to portions of the landscape
Herzog & De Meuron, Dominus Winery 1996-1998 – photo by Margherita Spiluttini On an international level the places where wine is made have the befitting name of “wineries”. In Italy, vice versa, the term used is “cantine” or cellars; in France they …
Wine Cellar Château Faugères
Situated atop the undulating hills near Saint Emilion, swathes of vineyards open out to the visitor in neat rows of vines rooted in the furrowed surfaces of the earth. In this landscape, the changes wrought by man are in perfect harmony with the metamo …
Bodega Institucional La Grajera
The project seeks an equilibrium between the need to announce the presence of the winery and the desire to merge with the landscape: the volumes follow the deformations of the land and are interrupted, moving towards the forest, remaining close to its …
Faustino Winery
Bodegas Portia is a new winery for the Faustino Group in the Ribera del Duero, one of Spain’s foremost wine-producing regions. The project is Foster + Partners first winery and was an opportunity to look afresh at the building type, using the natural t …
Marof Winery
The Marof (Maierhof) agricultural estate in eastern Slovenia has existed for 120 years. Its composition of a country manor house and outbuildings lies on the ridge west of Mačkovci village in Prekmurje. Complete revitalization of the complex reinstates …
Laposa Winery
The viticultural building has to be like a model, but the hierarchic organisational structure is not an exclusive factor for this. In the geometric model two basic elements – the symmetric gable, closed roof abstraction of the press house and the hexag …
Bodega Qumrán
The location for the project is a small hill in the municipality of Peñafiel, in the Castilian plateau. It is a small winery surrounded by a vast vineyard, with a strong presence of the immediate surroundings that overlooks the natural environment of t …