Corazón del Sol Vineyard / A4estudio

Textual content description offered by the architects. The undertaking is positioned in Valle de Uco, Tunuyán, a wine-growing space 100 kilometers south of town of Mendoza.

It’s a small vineyard with a capability of 70,000 liters in tanks and 50,000 in barrels. The economic program is complemented by a tourism sector consisting of a wine cellar, a tasting room, and an administrative space.

The economic group is proposed in sequence, beginning with three consecutive parallel buildings organized from east to west: a grape harvesting gallery, a tank room, and a barrel room. The fruit enters from the east and the completed product exits from the north. The tourism entrance is deliberate on the other aspect (west), getting into from the south. A tour is proposed in relation to the view of the panorama and th
e mountains to the west, with visible contact with the barrel room. The wine cellar is positioned in a basement and the executive space is on a second stage. 

The size of the undertaking is decided by the wants of the commercial constructing, however the tourism tour maintains the identical top, including to the visible expertise. Lastly, a system of sunshades is proposed that regulates extreme daylight from the west at totally different angles, offering managed openings, temperatures, and shadows for the tour. 

The materiality of the undertaking is designed in relation to the panorama, with a concrete base involved and coherence with a mineral and rocky floor, and a second layer with a corten metal pores and skin in relation to the colours of the winery in autumn and winter. The terrace of the tasting room is positioned on a piloted platform to attain dominant views of the panorama and generate the least doable impression.