cupano winery
extension

© Andrea Ceriani The building was designed to reduce the functional complexity of a winery with simplified and elementary solutions aimed to a great flexibility of space and reduction of building volume, while guaranteeing high levels of comfort and reduced energy consumption, enhancing the exploitation of passive and free energy systems.

© Andrea Ceriani Here, contemporary architecture does not give an interpretation of the past but, using new technologies, it silently lies on and in the territory, gathering, selecting and transforming its resources. The goal is not to blend into the landscape profiles but to be part of it.

© Andrea Ceriani The whole complex consists of an existing building with premises used as offices and tasting/sales area on the first floor. The ground floor, partially underground, hosts the winemaking, bottling and goods loading-unloading areas as well as the entrance and the aging rooms. The expansion involved a logistical reorganization of all the spaces at this floor.

© Andrea Ceriani A project in a contemporary key in terms of energy saving and seismic adaptation that basically uses four types of material: exposed concrete colored paste for the part of the outer shell of the new winemaking area, characterized by a vibrating surface obtained from a formwork in bridge boards of different thickness; fir wood boards left to natural oxidation for the ventilated facades; steel-corten sheets for tinsmiths, the gutter channels and for the coverage of the central area; metal mesh in sandblasted black steel for the structure of the new processing area, located centrally between the two parts of the complex.