DESCENDIENTES DE J. PALACIOS WINERIES
El Bierzo, Spain

2013-2017

• The client´s requirements were as follows: that the winery maintain the climactic conditions necessary for the natural wine making process; that the process  take  place gradually, by stages; and that the vehicular access around the winery took account of the different types of movement, namely  the transportation of grapes, the workers, visitors and bottled wine.  Therefore, the design became structured on the basis of three volumes, well anchored in the terrain, organized in a way that made explicit the distinct aspects of the wine making process.

  The upper part of the building is the volume that corresponds to the elaboration of the wine from the collection and selection of the grapes until, ultimately, the wine is bottled.  The lowest  volume serves those uses associated with the cultivation of the vines.   Between them, both overseeing the production of the wine as well as its packaging and dispatching, the middle volume includes the workspaces where the daily activities take place.

  In relation to these three adjacent figures, three courtyards appear: the harvest plaza at the highest level, 732m; just below, the plaza that unites the offices with the laboratories and the wine tanks and fermenters, at level 726; and finally the lower plaza at 720m which provides access for the agricultural equipment and the trucks which transport the bottled wine.

  
  

• LOCATION:

  Corullón, El Bierzo, Castilla y León (Spain)

• CLIENT:

  Descendientes J. Palacios
  Álvaro Palacios
  Ricardo Pérez Palacios
  

• PROGRAM:

  Wineries

• ARCHITECT:

  Rafael Moneo

• PROJECT TEAM:

  Valerio Canals Revilla, Project Architects
  Clara Moneo Feduchi, Project Architects
  Pablo Sequero, Architects
  Emmanuele Frongia, Architects
  Isabel Moneo Lara, Architects
  Adrian Martínez. Architects
  

• COLLABORATORS:

  QuantitySurveyors: Pedro Legarreta Nuin, David Fernández
  
  Structural Engineer: Jesús Jiménez Cañas
  
  Mechanical Engineer: Vértice 21, proyecto de instalaciones
  Pryse Ingenieria, dirección de obra
  
  Security Consultant: Miguel Alegre
  

• BUILDER:

  VDR Mutilva, S. L.Marcos Cordero, construction manager Luis Lopes, construction

• BUDGET:

  6.200.000 €

• SURFACE AREA:

  7.200m2

• DATE:

  Project 2013-2015
  Construction 2015-2017
  

• PICTURES:

  Duccio Malagamba