The architecture studio ÁBATON designed its first winery project for the renowned family winery CVNE, in the Rioja town of Haro, in the area called Rioja Alta, in Spain. The wine company that has turned 140 years, relied on the studio of architects the expansion of its facilities with new spaces for production and storage, and to intervene comprehensively in the overall image.

Never before Ignacio Lechón, Camino Alonso and Carlos Alonso had faced a project like this, which translates into more than 16,000 m² of constructed area and a volume of approximately 127,500 m³. The expansion of CVNE, sees the light in which they have worked for the last ten years and coincides with a key celebration for the wine company.
The winery family permanently combines the validity of the wise winery traditions with the introduction of the latest innovations. Its first and main wine cellar, CVNE, which began as a unique stone building gave rise to a small village, called Aldea del Vino.

The wine company currently has seven wineries and its focus is on the production of quality, traditional and traditional wine. Based on an overview, ÁBATON studied and understood the winemaking process and proposed, in various phases, a global expansion project that understands buildings as containers of a process.
 

Description of project by ÁBATON

In order to continue betting on the highest quality in its wines, CVNE considered the expansion of its facilities with new spaces for production and storage. They conceived the idea in 2009 and trusted ÁBATON also to intervene comprehensively in the overall image. All this translates, at present, into more than 16,000 m² of constructed area and a volume of approximately 127,500 m³.

From an overview, the team of architects studied and understood the process of winemaking and proposed, in various phases, a global expansion project that understands buildings as containers of a process, which demonstrate with their shape the different functions and that adopt an abstract language.

The simple geometries of industrial buildings are key, but the language that materializes them is different, completely original and innovative. It is a skin that gives continuity to walls and covers.

The industrial warehouses are literally covered by a coat that stabilizes the temperatures, fundamental in the wine production process and that gives the whole a neutral aspect as a model. This eliminates all gestures, eaves, cornices, downspouts, to generate a built continuum that could be integrated into the existing motley set.

To connect the white buildings, with each other and with the existing buildings, ÁBATON resorted to filters, that is, to built spaces that connect the different pieces and house the facilities, walkways, warehouses, services, loading docks, offices, etc. The filters acquire different materials, metallic and shiny between the ships, and matt concrete in contact with existing buildings.

In addition, two replicas of the famous APH80 transportable house were incorporated. These buildings are elements of control, access in one case and the quality of the wine during the harvest, in the other.

As for the phases, between 2009 and 2016 the expansion of the production warehouses (7,500 m²) and wine storage (4,000m²) were contemplated. From 2006 until 2019, a finished product ship (1,100 m²), a service corps, loading dock and offices (1,100 m²) and the recovery of the historic building, “Pieles” (300 m²) were executed.

 

 

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Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España (C.V.N.E.).
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2009-2019.
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Barrio de la estación de Haro, La Rioja, Spain.
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ÁBATON is an architecture studio formed in 1998 by Camino Alonso, Ignacio Lechón and Carlos Alonso. ÁBATON has more than 200 houses built (hotels, offices, restaurants) and more than 80 integral reforms in Spain and abroad. His work has been recognized in the specialized press of the sector in more than 80 countries. In 2015, she was selected among the best architects and designers from around the world under 50 years of age ("50 under 50. Innovators of the 21st Century").

Camino Alonso (December 31, 1965) studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Madrid E.T.S.A.M. Camino Alonso has been the Creative Director of the Studio. Camino Alonso began his professional career collaborating with several architectural studios such as Cano Lasso or Díaz and Quero Asociados, dealing mainly with urban planning interventions and projects in Alicante, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Andalusia, City Councils and Public Administrations.

Carlos Alonso (Madrid, 1968) is an Industrial Engineer specializing in Industrial Organization, by the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineers of Madrid and obtained a Master's Degree in Economics and Business Management from the Collège des Ingénieurs de Paris.

Ignacio Lechón (Zaragoza, April 13, 1965) studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Madrid E.T.S.A.M. Ignacio Lechón began his professional career collaborating with several architectural studios. Among them, it is worth mentioning the collaboration with Ricardo Lajara, with whom he became associated during some years in the first 90, of that time the project of extension of the central offices of the INEM in Madrid that designs and directs. In 1998 he founded ÁBATON Arquitectura together with Camino Alonso (Architect) and Carlos Alonso (Industrial Engineer).
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Published on: March 12, 2020
Cite: "Whiteness continuity for a wine cellar in Rioja by ÁBATON" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/whiteness-continuity-a-wine-cellar-rioja-abaton> ISSN 1139-6415
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