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The Herdade Of Freixo Winery in Portugal features an entrancing spiralling ramp

The interior has a dream-like quality thanks to architecture, ceiling, daylighting, interior design, light, lighting, wall, black — The interior has a dream-like quality thanks to its minimalism

There's plenty of storage - There's plenty of architecture, ceiling, daylighting, floor, interior design, lighting, lobby, wall, wood, brown, gray

Subtle lighting lines this space - Subtle lighting architecture, ceiling, furniture, interior design, lighting, lobby, wall, brown

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This space features all the equipment required to ceiling, structure, gray, black

Skylights run the length of this space - architecture, ceiling, daylighting, interior design, gray, brown

The bottom of the ramp features recessed lighting light fixture, lighting, lighting accessory, product design, table, brown

A view of the curved ramp from the architecture, daylighting, interior design, light fixture, lighting, product design, table, gray, black

A rock intrudes in this part of the arch, ceiling, fixed link, tunnel, brown

This massive volume channels the Guggenheim - This architecture, ceiling, daylighting, interior design, light, lighting, line, wall, brown, gray

The ramp curves up and around - The architecture, ceiling, daylighting, interior design, line, product design, stairs, gray, brown

This substantial room channels the light - This architecture, ceiling, concrete, daylighting, house, interior design, light, brown, black

Architect: Frederico Valsassina ArquitectosAbout the project (Text supplied): The herdade of the Freixo, with about 300ha, and 26ha of vineyard, presents itself as a typical Alentejo landscape, undulating, diversified and with interesting points of view on the surroundings. Punctuated by clusters of wild olive trees, olive trees and holm oak, it still concentrates in one of its elevations a mount, identified by typically rural constructions that define it.

The morphology of the existing ground was so decisive for the definition of the project, making it imperative to keep it unchanged although subject to an intervention with this volume of construction. Any intervention would never jeopardise the balance found on site.

From up above, it appears you're just looking aerial photography, agriculture, atmosphere, atmosphere of earth, cloud, ecoregion, ecosystem, field, grass, grass family, grassland, hill, horizon, landscape, morning, plain, prairie, rural area, sky, steppe, brown — From up above, it appears you're just looking at a winery and grove of trees

The functional intersection, the relation between interior / exterior and natural / artificial report the existence of an inner presupposition, with which we have no immediate visual contact. It appears as an artificial accident whose anonymity is being lost as it travels allowing different circuits that cross the heart of the intervention, the central courtyard, unifying element of all circulations.

It was placed on a fluid and sequential transition of spaces that are intended to physically and visually communicate. These are followed by providing, similarly to what happens in the herdade topography, overlapping views, diversified, which indicate that there is more beyond what is directly within reach. The purified language of architectural forms takes advantage of the scenic effect of the building, captivating the visitor and convincing him to go through all the spaces in order to perceive the whole and understand the functional hierarchy between them, distinguishing and individualising each of the zones industrial and social components.

In the production, the option to bury the winery, projecting it in several floors to more than 40m of depth, allowed that the gravitational force in the process of winemaking was used, respecting the wine masses and using the most advanced and innovative techniques of oenology. It was also possible for this reason to create the best thermal conditions for wine conservation given the reduction of the thermal amplitude and the low temperature values.

Story by: David Renwick

10 Nov, 2017

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