“Benim inançlarım ve
düşüncelerim iletişim ve eğitim
gerektiriyor. Bir müteahhitle
konuşurken -ahşap, taş ya da
toprakla ilgili- yaklaşımımı
açıklamak zorundayım
çünkü ilk bakışta anlaşılır bir
yaklaşımım yok. “
“My beliefs and my thoughts
require communication and
education. Talking with a
developer I have to explain my
approach: wood, stone, earth,
because it is not obvious.”
Gilles Perraudin
This Wine Museum completed in 2012 in the center of northern
tip of Corsica is set between the village of Patrimonio and the
surrounding fields of grapes vines. The client was the local
municipality that was eager to highlight the regions high quality
wine production in an attraction that would draw tourism to the
area. Perraudin came to the project with the objective of using
his system of monolithic blocks using the variegated limestone
of the Bonifacio quarry in the south of Corsica and additional
local materials such as the Corsican black pine wood for the
structural timber system of the roofs. The plan of the Museum was
adapted towards the topography of the site, the programmatic
requirements for exhibition space, the presence of the village and
the Mediterranean climate. In contrast to Perraudin’s previous
monolithic stone projects composed of large, single buildings,
the design for the Wine Museum consists of a grouping of small
exhibition pavilion buildings connected by a grid of open spaces
paved in natural stone, covered by wood and steel trellises
supported on free standing limestone columns. The sloped
terraces framed by these columns orient visitors towards the view
of the natural landscape and vineyards down towards the valley
while also guiding visitors through the complex.
While spatial planning is important it is the impact of the
architectonic system of limestone, natural stone, wood and steel
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