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The link between winery and architecture
I am currently working on formulating my topic for my dissertation for my final year of Master in Architecture, but are having trouble assembling together my ideas in to a research question or questions.
I am quite certain that I would like to design a winery/vineyard and have played around with several thoughts. The placement of this winery will be in either New Zealand or Italy.
I have interests in the passiveness of architecture, working with the environment to produce spaces of comfort and interest without the need for mechanical heating and cooling etc. I also have interests in open spaces (piazzas), nature, the intangible elements of architecture (the atmosphere produced by the space), and distinct geometries.
My idea/research question are as follows:
- How can wineries adapt to the current day rises in land prices and is there the possibility of verticality in a horizontally based function? How can the sun and other external environmental elements be used to develop this concept?
Through this question I am hoping to explore the alternatives of wineries, test the way they are designed and built. Most probably also research into the way in which they have been designed in the past and how they are viewed now. As I now understand, the more prestigious wineries now seem to desire a Known architect to design their winery for branding and prestige, and icon to sell their wine as more than just a taste.
One of the things I am most uncertain about is my reason of designing vertically that I have blamed on rising land prices. I thought that designing verticality in a horizontally (winery) based function would be an interesting way of testing something new, and felt I had to have some reasoning behind why I would do this. When I say vertically, I do not necessarily mean sky scraper, could be on the side of a cliff, etc.
Please let me know of any thoughts on anything above.
Thank you.
grown sideways
a pair of flaws for your idea:
1) grapes need light, cliffs give shade for long periods of the day.
2) grapes are picked by machine like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muijEcP9_ZE <that. You'd have to not only design the winery, you'd have to design an entirely new process of getting the grapes from the fields to the facility that ferments them.
I'd recommend doing a thorough study of wineries as to how they operate so that your solution is thorough and would convince an impartial judge that a winery could in fact operate that way.
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'calculator' - It sounds like you know a lot about this topic.
Those two points are very good. For number 1, I think this could be an interesting problem to the topic, designing to make full advantage of the sun and other elements. Possibly the solution might not a completely vertical cliff. For number 2, The process is also another part that would have to be integrated into the study and design.
Do you think this topic would be a legitimate and interesting research topic? Also if you do know anything generally about problems with wineries today? I would be happy to hear about it.
Thanks for your comment
@umuben
I am not all that knowledgeable about winery operations, beyond some tours.
My suggestion to you is to be as thorough as possible in your research before thinking about interventions and redesigns. If I were designing a winery I would thoroughly research winery operations and precedent, and then thoroughly research the site, and only after those have been done would I think about how I could change them. Perhaps the problem you're attempting to solve, the expense of land, is not the real problem for wineries you need to look at.
Look at the total operation - growing grapes, the processing facility, the bottling facility (often the same), the aging areas, etc. After you are a familiar with this, and familiar with a site (even if you have to make one up), then think about what and how to intervene.
also the humorously expressed suggestion of indoor growing or hydroponics in the post above mine might get some attention as well. Do the research and see where it takes you.
@umuben About two years ago SFMOMA had an exhibition titled How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. You should look into it. Might be useful to your research.
"The exhibition, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, combines architectural models and design objects with works of art, some newly commissioned, and multimedia presentations, as well as objects drawn from viticulture and everyday life. Viewers will encounter artworks, objects, and information within immersive, quasi-theatrical environments that engage multiple senses including smell."
http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/829
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