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Bodega Qumrán / Konkrit Blu Arquitectura

Architects
Konkrit Blu Architecture

Location
47314 Padilla de Duero, Valladolid, Spain

Architects in Charge
Sandra Hernández + Álvaro Solís

Area
700.0 m2

Project Year
2006

Pictures
José Hevia

Description of the architects. As it ascends along the road, surrounded by vineyards, the site appears as a small knoll, with soft contours, resting on the immensity of the landscape. A silent place, furrowed only by the echoes of memory, the traces inexorably inflicted by time. Traces that blur but belong to the place. The intention, from the beginning, will be to recall and emphasize these pre-existences; Contextualize them, situate them and relate them, to integrate them finally to the project. Redefining a new program, implementing a new strategy, creating a new place and new traces; In this way, to link the old with the new:

The landscape is presented in all its breadth. It is in a small hill in the natural place of the Valley of the Duero, where the project is located. A zone of orography and soft contours, destined almost entirely to the wine production and livestock. The winery is located in the culmination of the so-called Pago de las Bodegas, which provides shelter against frost and excellent views; Is embedded in the S-O end, in an arid and little functional zone due to a siliceous-rocky formation located in the subsoil, which forms a drop of four meters. Around, vineyard fields that merge with pinewoods.

The project foresees the construction of a unique winery and limited production in the same vineyards of the property. In the medium term, create educational courses, both inside and outside the plot, related to winemaking and local history and culture.

The access to the building, located in the culmination of a small hill, is realized by a slow ascension in which different scenarios happen, as if a rise to an acropolis was, letting glimpse the new building between the vestiges of caves and Mills The ascent continues inside the farm, between young strains of the country, by the traditional way of vintage, rehabilitated. The building emerges at each step, finally showing in its north facade, like a hill more. The winery project seeks integration with the landscape and minimal visual impact, within the requirements. The strategy - also taking into account the intrinsic advantages - is to take advantage of the unevenness of the plot to partially bury the building and move away the higher, southern facade of the boundary, creating a multifunctional plaza surrounded by vegetation. Eventually, the deck functions as a recovered lookout. In this process of abstraction, the chosen material, concrete in situ, represents the total material, which contributes continuity to the earth from the earth.

The limits of action are blurred giving continuity to existing vegetation and replanting autochthonous variety. In this way, strains are planted in the southern limit, extending the vineyards, and shrubs and aromatic plants, to the west. The manipulation is minimal: the green is allowed to fuse in a quasi-natural way with the existing landscape and its geometries. In this sense, the garden transcends beyond its limits and merges with the surrounding nature, such as a borrowed landscape or shakkei.

 

The project is conceived as the synthesis of the environment, as the sum of intrinsic factors, related to the landscape and the traces of the place and architectural factors, such as functionality or ergonomics. On the other hand, we work with an abstraction of the concept of traditional winery. The intention is to recall and emphasize these pre-existences; Endow them with context, situate and relate them, to finally integrate them into the project. Redefining a new program, implementing a new strategy, creating a new place and new traces; In this way, to link the old with the new.

The building is structured along the preexisting road, creating two differentiated program-strips and, at the same time, as if it were a topography, they are developed in different heights, reflecting the needs of the interior program. The gap between these covers allows to a greater or lesser degree the entrance of natural light. The broader northern belt houses the main production and storage rooms, taking advantage of the terrain's inertial qualities. The narrower southern band concentrates the complementary spaces of these, acting as a thermal mattress at the same time. Between the three naves, there are two servant cores, whose projection creates the transitions between spaces and the gaps for the entrances of people and goods. The building is organized longitudinally, developing the program sequentially and in an orderly manner. Due to its northern façade, with less visual impact, the main accesses are arranged. This stone façade is furrowed by gaps that physically and programmatically connect the field and the wine cellar: five vintage doors connecting the vineyards with the five warehouses; The pouring of the grapes takes place by gravity, as in the past. The other two openings give connection to the cores, which connect with the processing room and the office.

The intensity of light required in the project depends on the program of work in each room. Attempts are made to lightly control each space by means of gaps which receive light directly or indirectly from the outside, in the latter case by means of some type of filter or a threshold. The same treatment is carried out to enter or leave the building, according to the requirement of functionality or domesticity and privacy required. The two nuclei perform this function of threshold - both in the north façade and in the south - either in the accesses from the outside or to access the different interior spaces, where they act simultaneously as distributors.

The program requires a continuous and compact building, a building with entity and resounding that denote its presence, but at the same time disappears. The strategy for its integration is the fusion with the environment, giving continuity to the earth from the earth. The use of the concrete "in situ" seen provides the required thermal, structural and conceptual qualities: it acts as a total material. Its implementation, quasi-artisan process - in tune with the wine production of the winery in question - confers in its final aspect the irregularity that interests us.

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The  PADOC (heritage, landscape, graphic documentation and agroforestry construction)  research group was formally established as a Consolidated Research Group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2005.
Teachers participating in it belong to two architecture schools and two schools of agriculture:
School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
The School of Architecture and Geodesy, University of Alcalá de Henares
College of Agricultural Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
Superior Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.


http://www.upm.es/observatorio/vi/index.jsp?pageac=grupo.jsp&idGrupo=163

 

Some of the projects in which the group is currently working on are:

-Cocoa. New project: Study Cocoa agro-industrial waste. Funded by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Within the “Proyectos-Semilla (PID)”. Project Manager Ignacio Cañas Guerrero. This project is in collaboration with Central University of Venezuela. Duration 2015. Other information in cocoa: http://www.grupoinvestigacionpadoc.com/investigacion/investigacion.php?iditem=62&lang=en

-Cocoa: Valuing cultural heritage of cocoa through tourism landscapes.

-Landscape integration of Greenhouses and wind farms.

-Integrating Agricultural buildings into the landscape: reuse.

-Underground Cellars, an energy-saving model through building systems. The study of hygrothermal conditions, ventilation and simulation models.

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