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La Vigilia, Winery
La Vigilia, Winery
&, Ruta Provincial 94, Los Chacayes, Argentina
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La Vigilia, Winery
&, Ruta Provincial 94, Los Chacayes, Argentina
A calibrated relationship between volumes defines the project’s premise. Material, light and shadow shape the passage between the immensity of the landscape and the silent interiority of the temple, giving the winemaking process a precise and transcendent dimension.
La Vigilia is located within The Vines of Mendoza, in Los Chacayes, Tunuyán, 85 kilometres southwest of the city of Mendoza, Argentina.
The programmatic concept brings together production, storage, gathering, and contemplation. The architecture interprets this program from a dual perspective: as both an industrial building and a temple to wine. The work areas are designed to meet the technical precision required by the winemaking process; the spaces for access, circulation, and lingering create a calm, introspective, and ceremonial atmosphere. The winery gains a spatial depth linked to the temporality of wine: production, rest, maturation, and waiting.
The program is organized around four equidistant, solid volumes of black-pigmented concrete, each housing a specific function: entrance hall, tasting room, meeting room and production offices. These volumes are connected by a precise system of internal circulation that guides both winery staff and visitors. The entrance establishes two distinct modes of approach. Access to the production area is direct and efficient, while the visitor’s route unfolds as a slower experience, connected to the landscape and to a gradual understanding of the winemaking process.
The repetition of vertical planes creates a semi-covered threshold, a sequence of solids and voids that orders the entrance and prepares the transition into the interior. Axis, proportion and rhythm lend the approach the solemnity of a ritual antechamber.
The center of the building houses the production area and the aging of wine in concrete, ceramic and terracotta vessels. A laboratory strategically located within a Vierendeel beam overlooks every stage of the process, combining technical control with a spatial view of the winery’s productive core.
Materiality brings together weight, rawness, and landscape. On the exterior, black-pigmented concrete creates a solid, silent presence against the vast scale of the vineyard and the Andes. At the top of the volumes, a weathered metal crown establishes a chromatic connection with the surroundings. Its golden, earthy tone echoes the colours of the vine leaves in autumn and conveys a sense of time inherent to the productive landscape. Inside, bush-hammered natural concrete introduces a different material condition. The treatment of the surface reveals the concrete’s mineral aggregate and exposes its rawer character, an open and imperfect material.
Light completes the winery’s ceremonial character. At the threshold, the repetition of planes transforms it into rhythm, alternating brightness and shadow as a measure of entry. Inside, light is carefully controlled and darkness acquires depth. This dimness shapes the atmosphere of a temple, a place of concentration where production is linked to waiting and ageing. Here, the architecture reaches its synthesis, as light selects what is revealed, intensifies the material presence, and transforms the time of wine into a spatial experience of silence.
La Vigilia is located within The Vines of Mendoza, in Los Chacayes, Tunuyán, 85 kilometres southwest of the city of Mendoza, Argentina.
The programmatic concept brings together production, storage, gathering, and contemplation. The architecture interprets this program from a dual perspective: as both an industrial building and a temple to wine. The work areas are designed to meet the technical precision required by the winemaking process; the spaces for access, circulation, and lingering create a calm, introspective, and ceremonial atmosphere. The winery gains a spatial depth linked to the temporality of wine: production, rest, maturation, and waiting.
The program is organized around four equidistant, solid volumes of black-pigmented concrete, each housing a specific function: entrance hall, tasting room, meeting room and production offices. These volumes are connected by a precise system of internal circulation that guides both winery staff and visitors. The entrance establishes two distinct modes of approach. Access to the production area is direct and efficient, while the visitor’s route unfolds as a slower experience, connected to the landscape and to a gradual understanding of the winemaking process.
The repetition of vertical planes creates a semi-covered threshold, a sequence of solids and voids that orders the entrance and prepares the transition into the interior. Axis, proportion and rhythm lend the approach the solemnity of a ritual antechamber.
The center of the building houses the production area and the aging of wine in concrete, ceramic and terracotta vessels. A laboratory strategically located within a Vierendeel beam overlooks every stage of the process, combining technical control with a spatial view of the winery’s productive core.
Materiality brings together weight, rawness, and landscape. On the exterior, black-pigmented concrete creates a solid, silent presence against the vast scale of the vineyard and the Andes. At the top of the volumes, a weathered metal crown establishes a chromatic connection with the surroundings. Its golden, earthy tone echoes the colours of the vine leaves in autumn and conveys a sense of time inherent to the productive landscape. Inside, bush-hammered natural concrete introduces a different material condition. The treatment of the surface reveals the concrete’s mineral aggregate and exposes its rawer character, an open and imperfect material.
Light completes the winery’s ceremonial character. At the threshold, the repetition of planes transforms it into rhythm, alternating brightness and shadow as a measure of entry. Inside, light is carefully controlled and darkness acquires depth. This dimness shapes the atmosphere of a temple, a place of concentration where production is linked to waiting and ageing. Here, the architecture reaches its synthesis, as light selects what is revealed, intensifies the material presence, and transforms the time of wine into a spatial experience of silence.
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