Castle Winery in Palencia, Spain by Moral Arquitectura

Article source: Moral Arquitectura

The time is who builds this one
A lost place, a real place.
There is a Way that is always open
It is a family work, a personal option, a life story
This Project belongs to ground
Only the hand transformed the inside of the hill
The ancient gallery was already there. It was always there
This project thinks about how to define a sensations sequence
A mouth that swallows you and takes you to its entrails
The dryness of the place, the crudeness of the stations transform into rugosity. Day by day…
There was no exact plan. It was an intuitive work. It was a hard process. It was an experimental labor.
A heavy, firm, deep… matter that was marked by pressure, by the weather and by the…time

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

• Architects: Moral Arquitectura
• Project: Castle Winery
• Location: Moratinos (Palencia), Spain
• Photography: Jorge López-Conde
• Architects Office: Fernando Moral Andrés/Moral Arquitectura
• Project Architect: Fernando Moral Andrés
• Quantity Surveyor: José Luis Sánchez Rodríguez
• Collaborators: Teresa Gómez, Fernando P. Borrego, Antonio Moral, Miguel Ángel Moral, Javier Ramos, Javier Sancho, Alexis S. Verpont
• Structural Partner: Moncova, S.L.
• Construction: Javier Vega, Miguel Alonso, Alfonso Alonso, Secundino González, Tino Díez
• Area: 255.2 sqm
• Year: 2012
• Software used: AutoCAD

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Only the time will be who constructs this work that it will never finish. We are in a population eminently rural, of twenty inhabitants, but with a census strangely multinational. The project develops the reform and adequacy of a “bicentenary” wine vault in restaurant.

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The ancient underground gallery will be the main dining room and in the new block they arrange the area of bar, kitchens and the auxiliary dependence. The performance thinks about how to construct the sensations continuity between all the spaces of the complex. The hill that lodges the work is formed in its entirety by ground, extremely compact which brown rock that contributes an ideal energy conditions.

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The old vault was excavated and carved completely to hand, being it is made determinant in the whole process. In the contemporary building concrete was used dying with a finished one extremely worked in all its surface.

Inside the same one there were fixed strips of poor wood, seen and destined to rot, capturing thus passing really of the days… The previous intuitions have wanted to be constructed.

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The result only has been possible with the continuous, exhaustive and experimental work along the whole execution. Any fact in-situ, we all have used the hands (do it yourself!), also the owners have intervened in all the phases, even the chemistry … But the work owes to the ground, which generates it and protects it. A hard, firm, serious matter… marked by the pressure, the climate and the time.

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Image Courtesy © Jorge López-Conde

Tags: Palencia, Spain

Categories: Autocad, carve, Restaurant, Winery

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