Icarius _studio Valley Winery

he Winery Icaria is immersed in the charming atmosphere of the hills of Val d'Orcia, the specificity of the natural context and approach to the production activity suggests the use of stone material aimed at non-invasive architecture that, with the austerity and simplicity of the geometry of the four volumes emerging reinterpret the type of building rural Tuscany. The solution combines functional-typological traditional spaces (offices, rooms for aging, fermentation, winemaking, bottling, warehousing, tasting rooms) and not (for exposure to public environments, boardrooms).
The composition derives from a unitary element stone, then divided into four different volumes lying on the natural slope of the soil, whose inter-spaces become light band culminating in four appendices, transparent prisms initially conceived as spaces for a sculpture depicting the four elements Primary: water, air, earth, fire, emblems of the search for context.
Sheaths mostly materic, approach carefully glazed volumes, according to a rhythmic alternation of full and empty.
The relationship tradition-modernity implicitly connected to the union full-empty, cellars Icarius not resulting in the 'extremism of either appearance, but in a careful balance of language.
The project is looking for a blend of formal and functional, with the tradition in language, externally and internally assonant it designed by a spatial geometry of trusses and the use of glassy surfaces.

 

However, the visual transparency is not chasing and sequentially to the landscape: the lack of openings lacerino façade cladding, except for the paths of glazed link that allows Visual localized alter the visual balance 's interior. The 'involution' concept of the use of masonry, limit matter that prevents the internal spatiality "explode", does not translate into a conception claustrophobic space: the internal collapse, imploding on itself. The visual permeability does not occur exclusively along the horizontal central connective appears physically separated from the fermentation and wine from a glass-ceiling, unusual transparency in coverage and intermediate floors, allowing access of light and reveal zenithal perspective views internal representation of the room chasing each room rolls the outline of an architecture that, refusing to look beyond its wrapper, turns his gaze inward, introspective architecture.
An ethereal "curtain" expands in a multi-purpose room, located in a volume originally conceived as a collection of visual composition: a "tower" mindful of history and tradition of urbanization mainly in Tuscany. The exhibition space, revealing slits and light visual zenith becomes a filter between the cellar and context.