{"id":265559,"date":"2025-11-06T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/265559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:57:09","slug":"atelier-sergio-rebelo-encases-quinta-de-adrorigo-winery-in-timber-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/265559\/","title":{"rendered":"Atelier S\u00e9rgio Rebelo encases Quinta de Adrorigo Winery in timber frame"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cluster of gently curving timber<\/a> volumes merges to form Quinta de Adorigo Winery in Portugal<\/a>, designed by architecture studio Atelier S\u00e9rgio Rebelo to reference the surrounding terraced vineyards.<\/p>\n

Located in the historic winemaking region and UNESCO World Heritage site\u00a0Alto Douro Vinhateiro, the winery was completed as part of a wider tourism complex, which includes a hotel currently under construction.<\/p>\n

The project was recently shortlisted in the hospitality project category<\/a> of the\u00a0Dezeen Awards 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorAtelier S\u00e9rgio Rebelo has completed Quinta de Adrorigo Winery in Portugal<\/p>\n

Informed by the wavy contours of the landscape’s terraced vineyards and the gravity-flow winemaking process, Atelier S\u00e9rgio Rebelo<\/a> housed Quinta de Adorigo Winery’s production and visitor facilities in a cluster of curving\u00a0barn-like forms that step down the hillside.<\/p>\n

Dug into the ground on a base of concrete clad in local schist stone, these gabled volumes are constructed from laminated wooden frames infilled with cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glass-fibre-reinforced concrete panels.<\/p>\n

Their twisting timber framework has been left exposed both inside and out, described by founder S\u00e9rgio Rebelo as being reminiscent of the “skeleton of an ancient, giant animal”.<\/p>\n

\"OverheadThe facility is formed of barn-like timber volumes<\/p>\n

“We studied many iterations until we found something that just seemed natural and as though it was always there,” Rebelo told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“I wanted the building to blur with the landscape, in a way that you can’t tell where the building starts or ends,” he added.<\/p>\n

“The geometry of the winery’s roof interprets the vernacular gable roof structured in wood,” Rebelo continued. “This structure has been taken over and exposed in this winery and has become a sinuous, continuous and organic sculptural element that flows through the tangential curves of the vineyard slope.”<\/p>\n

\"InteriorQuinta de Adrorigo Winery’s timber frame has been left exposed<\/p>\n

While the grapes begin their journey via a series of circular gravity-drop openings at the building’s highest point, the visitor route begins at its lowest, entering through a “cave-like” shop and up a sculptural exposed-concrete staircase.<\/p>\n

This entrance spaces opens into the double-height, skylit ageing space at the heart of the building, where industrial vats and barrels sit overlooked by steel balconies and a glazed tasting room for visitors.<\/p>\n

\"SeatingBalconies overlook the double-height ageing space<\/p>\n

Partially sinking this area within stone retaining walls created the thermal mass necessary to maintain a stable temperature range as the wine ages.<\/p>\n

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“The section of this space is very similar to a church \u2013 about 10 meters high \u2013 with natural light coming from above,” said Rebelo.<\/p>\n

“In a way, this makes the room feel very spiritual and with a special connection to timelessness.”<\/p>\n

\"QuintaA sculptural concrete staircase forms part of the entrance sequence<\/p>\n

Other wineries recently featured on Dezeen include the Circular Pictograma winery in Mexico by Rojkind Arquitectos and AMASA Estudio<\/a>, and a semi-circular winery in northern France by Carmen Maurice Architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Fernando Guerra<\/a>.<\/p>\n