ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS
HENNESSY VILLAGE
BARBARITO BANCEL ARCHITECTS
Hennessy Village explores a precise and sensitive architecture, where form does not impose itself but rather reveals itself through the dialogue between landscape, uses, and materiality. The project brings forth an essential, discreet, and shared beauty, capable of transcending cultures through its universality.
Embodying Hennessy’ s Values Beyond its function, the project conveys a collective vision: working together, being connected to the territory, transmitting, receiving, living, and tasting.
The hybrid program brings together offices, dining, exhibition, and reception spaces within a clear and adaptable organization. It encourages exchanges between professions, including the most sensitive ones such as the craft of the“ nez”, in an environment conducive to transmission and creative stimulation.
Resonance Between the Vineyard Landscape and the Cognac World
In Salles-d’ Angles, the project is rooted in a rolling landscape structured by vineyards. The architecture accompanies the landscape and geometrizes the territory rather than constraining it. Located on a
Hennessy bottling ICPE industrial site in immediate proximity to a military air base, the building develops 4,000 m ² within a demanding context.
Composition from Earth to Sky The building is organized according to a tripartite composition: base, main body, and attic level.
Its relationship to the ground is singular: the timber building rests lightly upon it, without anchoring, preserving the integrity of the natural soil while affirming its lightness and reversibility. This transitional space combines climatic comfort, circulation, and contemplation.
The main body unfolds through a regular structural grid, rhythmically articulated by a gallery of walkways. The attic level rises toward the sky through the elevation of the canopy, whose underside is tinted a deep red evoking the amber reflections of cognac.
Façades: Between the Inner Garden and the Wider Landscape
The landscape penetrates the interior spaces, which extend toward the horizon.
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