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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Wine Museum in Portugal by 405. architectsJuly 26th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: 405. architects The town of São João da Pesqueira is in the most antique and relevant areas of the Douro wine region. As so, the necessity of a space to perpetuate the memory and ancient knowledge of the wine tradition emerged, and the Wine Museum has been created. The Museum arises as a half-buried building, in a very restrict site with steep slopes, between buildings and located in the main street, that comes from the river, crosses the town and flows to the countryside. In the front, facing the town an antique wine press building is preserved and restored to its former glory, becoming integrated part of the Museum.  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra
 Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra It was necessary to reconcile various programmatic constraints in little space, taking into account the environment and the needed to design a building with an identity without exceeding the volumetric area of the surrounding buildings. Distributed through a vertical arrangement of six floors, the exhibition spaces are developed in the first three, between tunnels and showrooms where the contrast between light and shadow is explored in different visual relationships provided by gaps between floors. The remaining three floors accommodate administration, educational services, tasting room, and panoramic wine bar.  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra The entire space becomes unified by sunlight filtered by a concave glass steel structure covered in brown zinc, and by the contrast between textured wood and raw concrete walls. The building materials and construction methods are simple traditional wall building and wood working, that reflects the austerity of the region. As an important cultural equipment, the Wine Museum maintains the heritage and the history of the people that built the Douro vineyards. All the spaces are accessible and the exhibitions have interactive and adaptable resources to people’s needs.  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Ultimas Reportagens – Fernando Guerra+Sergio Guerra  Image Courtesy © Luís Coelho  Image Courtesy © Luís Coelho  Image Courtesy © 405. architects  Image Courtesy © 405. architects  Image Courtesy © 405. architects  Image Courtesy © 405. architects  Image Courtesy © 405. architects  Image Courtesy © 405. architects
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