Aiming to connect the Metaxa brand to its roots, LIKNON is located in a 100 year old vineyard in Samos, where its special ingredient, the sweet muscat grape grows.
The project is a landmark in a valley beneath the village of Vourliotes, that will showcase the origins of Metaxa which are tightly bound to the island’s culture, one with a long tradition in high quality goods and winemaking.
In LIKNON, the vine is the protagonist, and the traditional concept of a museum building dissolves into a walkthrough and an exploration around the vine’s habitat. Rather than a building, it is a landscape, where the visitor wanders around and under the vines’ birthplace, submerges underground in order to get in touch with the history of the brand through an interactive experience and a series of sensory activations.
The architecture of this scenery is an extension of the productive dry stone terraces where vines grow, and borrows the dynamic and roughness of the natural and traditional productive landscape in order to blend into the valley.
Project: LIKNON
Firm: K-STUDIO
Jury Winner, 11th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Stone
