4 April 2012 TvArquitectura / Virai Arquitectos Gobierno de La Rioja / Virai Arquitectos
“La Grajera” Winery in Logroño. First Prize International Competition MADA
First Prize International Competition MADA
Juan Manuel Molina and Marta Parra Herranz Casado (Virai Architects) has won the first prize in the international competition “Architecture and Design Awards MosBuild (MADA)” in the category of sustainability and energy savings with its Institutional Winery project “The Grajera ”located in Logroño.
MosBuild is a free contest, organized in Moscow (Russia) and is open to young architects (maximum 45 years) and students of architecture worldwide, and this is your first call.
Bioclimatic Building Solutions
The building, in harmony with their environment and climate, bioclimatic solutions offers simple, often found in traditional buildings.
Living areas to the south, therefore the protection of areas dedicated to the production and fermentation, which is underground, protected by the hill. This allows to take advantage of the thermal inertia of the soil and reduces the need for air conditioning.
The pitched roof is covered by vegetation increases the thermal insulation, while a further integration structure in the surrounding view.
The glass surfaces of the southern part of the institutional structure flag is protected by shutters and porches ceramic that protects against the sun in summer and winter passes.
The winery uses 100% of geothermal heat pumps for air conditioning
Project Description
On the Winery of La Grajera, west of the city of Logroño and only a few meters from the Camino de Santiago, is the winery’s Institutional Grajera. The project seeks to balance its representative character and the desire to merge with the landscape.
The objective is surprising, volumes follow the forms of the earth.
A sandstone basement, which houses the production area of the hold, bends and rises as a landscape element.
The large green roof reflects the passage of the seasons, and redefines the profile of the hill where the building. On the basement establishing the institutional flag, which is embodied in a light, long the structure of glass and black ceramic coating.
Its uneven profile traces the edge of vegetation, and form an opening to the landscape.
The route through the building is of great importance, as we leave the vineyard, landscape and light, gently into a subterranean world of darkness, tranquility, serenity and silence, the home of wine
