DOĞAL TAŞIN HAM YAPISI VE
IŞLENMIŞ KAYRAK TAŞININ DÜZGÜN
HATLARI, BIRLIKTE GÜÇLÜ BIR
KONTRAST OLUŞTURUYOR.
THE HORIZONTAL STACKED SLATE
AND THE RAW, IRREGULAR PATTERNS
OF THE NATURAL STONE DOMINATE
THE EXTERIOR ENVIRONMENT.
the previously existing facilities with the addition of the
fermentation warehouse, the hogshead warehouse and
reception area.
In a landscape as unique and astonishing as Douro, any
intervention must be very precise. That’s why the first
challenge was to underline the distinctive identity of the
project while carefully respecting the landscape. Each
gesture had to be incisive, adapting itself to the given
program while realizing an expressiveness that could value
both the built complex and the surrounding landscape.
The expansion project for Quinta do Vallado included two
areas of intervention, for production and leisure and an
additional challenge: to maintain and to integrate the
pre-existing buildings in a new complex with a clearly
contemporary vocabulary. The unification of all these
purposes needed great technical precision and resulted
in great simplicity, both in the use of material and in the
creation of forms. This assured minimal impact on the
landscape while the same economy of means was used to
create distinctive attractive spaces.
The new structures design was strictly dictated by
the production requirements of a gravity system of
winemaking. Understanding the whole production system
required great seriousness, discipline and also time. The
architects therefore had to plan the building while taking
heed of the topography of the land. The new volumes
merge into the landscape by declaring their artificial nature
creatingv tension and balance between the previous
buildings and topography.
The parallelepiped mass of the hogshead warehouse forms
an arch space at the interior. This formation provides a
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