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Architects: Japaz Guerra Arquitectos
- Area: 3500 m²
- Year: 2022
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Photographs:Luis Abba
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Manufacturers: Santiago Monteverdi - Construcciones Civiles SA
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Lead Architects: Gabriel Japaz – Pablo Guerra
Text description provided by the architects. To the west of Route 15 ( old Route 40) and next to prestigious wineries is ANAIA WINES. Possessing views that are an icon of Mendoza and with an income between vineyards that end in the Andes Mountains you enter Fincas Del Campo where ANAIA WINES is located.
A peculiarity of this farm is its vineyards of irregular form like a broken glass, this apparent capricious form responds to the logic of having selected each sector of the farm for the strains more suitable for that type of soil, following the concept of Terroir.
The Winery and the House are part of a set that dialogues with each other where the visuals towards the Cordillera between irrigation lagoons used scenographically, allow a game of images, reflections and sounds of water that remind us that ANAIA belongs to the central oasis system of Mendoza, where water as a resource plays a fundamental role to which we pay tribute.
The design of the winery is inspired by the land and landscape of Mendoza, in its topography of mountains, the xerophytic flora of its hills, the texture and color of its ancient rocks and the change of earthy tones that responds to different strata that were sedimenting through thousands of years. And as wine is born from the earth, ANAI emerges from it with the force of a tectonic folding, in this case, built in concrete, which is the liquid rock as defined by Le Corbusier.
Spatially the building is simple and forceful, it is a rectangular prism of 11 mts. wide by 100 mts. long where the different sectors that the range of these wines needs occur spatially linearly, that is: Harvest Sector, Fermentation Hall (in tilting concrete tanks), Barrel Hall, Bottle Hall and Expedition Gallery.
On an upper floor destined for the Tourism Sector, there is a room with a panoramic view of the Andes Mountain Range and a balcony to the Tanks and Barrels room. On the ground floor, the sector has a Tasting Room equipped with a sophisticated multimedia installation that projects the aromatic descriptors of wines on the tasting table.
As a synthesis, form, function, integration into the landscape, passive thermal control, energy and water resources economy, austerity and elegance, etc. They are part of the same architectural concept that defines ANAIA WINES.
