new winemaking
cellar
monte curiano (gr)ongoing
Gently laid on the cultivated slope, the new winery presents itself as a monolithic, compact, and silent body – one that engages with the landscape without ever overpowering it. Seemingly closed, its mass instead opens to a subtler dialogue: a carefully composed interplay of solid and void sets the rhythm of the building, alternating thresholds and screens, concealing and revealing the landscape with a theatrical intent, like a slow unfurling of stage curtains.
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The material becomes solid and mineral, in direct relationship with the earth, yet it is water that restores a sense of lightness: by reflecting surfaces and sky, it creates the illusion that the uppermost level floats – suspended, almost abstract – like a thought taking shape within the landscape.

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In this balance between gravity and suspension lies the very logic of wine: a slow process made of weight, transfer, and waiting. The building follows the natural slope to organize the production flow by gravity, with grapes descending toward the lower, stable spaces dedicated to aging.

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But it is in the space of hospitality – between light, shadow, and reflection – that the architecture declares its deeper intent: not merely to construct a place for making wine, but to shape a landscape in which one might recognize oneself.

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