We would like to introduce you to our project – Whisky Distillery, which is the first Whisky Distillery in Russia. The facility is equipped with a high-technology production line that is why the majority of processes will take place in a sterile laboratory-like environment. We are going to show the visitors of this manufacture the full extent of what constitutes the alchemical process of obtaining the drink.
The second thing that needs to be said is that the building of the Whisky Distillery expands the developing architectural ensemble of “Alliance-1892” in the city of Chernyakhovsk, which beginning was marked with the Cognac Museum & Warehouse.
Now, about the project itself. In the search for the form, we referred to the spirit of this drink and discovered that this is a strong “masculine” drink, that was born in Scotland and, therefore, its spirit is akin to a Celtic one. Thus, we concluded that “HE” should be warriorlike and redoubtable but not without ornament, obviously masculine in its character. We used these ornaments – ethnic marks on the ground – the plane on which the building is located, also referring to the drink’s origins by the use of black stone – a signature of the Scottish land.
Since a major part of the building is occupied by the technological processes which require minimal human intervention and pose next to no interest for casual viewers, it is housed in a long solid box – only a light well in the roof providing illumination to this part of the building. The center stage “spectacle” of the production is the distillation process, which takes place in copper alembics that are presented not only to the visitors of the Brandy Distillery, but also visible from the side of the Cognac Museum & Warehouse. This space along with the laboratory and the tasting room constitute the head part of the building.