Oenological centre

The Oenology Centre faces the castle, on the opposite side of the vale and represents the other geographic end of a single project. The nature of the dialogue between the historical monument and today’s project is essential. The new architecture must offer a contemporary answer to the castle while taking into account a village-outskirts environment made up essentially of villas.

Our project is a synthesis between the data of a programme, the peculiarity of which is that it groups many types of different functions, and this unusual territorial location. The Centre brings together three operational entities: the cellar, the public reception space and the hotel and restaurant. We designed a layout allowing each entity to both function independently and be an integral part of a coherent whole; this combination generates the specific identity.

The Oenology Centre’s architecture creates a microcosm centred on winemaking where comfortably accommodated visitors stand at the heart of the winemaking activity and can see and taste the production. To create this microcosm we imagined a hybrid and unusual universe in which each element interacts with the others, the whole acting as a landmark in the landscape, echoing the Castle.