Martin Hurtado Arquitectos

Productive Services, Morande Winery

Low timber-clad winery service buildings beside vineyard rows.
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PRODUCTIVE SERVICES, MORANDE WINERY

Martin Hurtado Arquitectos Asociados

CATEGORY
Winery

LOCATION
Casablanca, Chile

YEAR
2005

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This project started as a Competition Masterplan's first place, which involved territorial planning on a 1000 Há land of ravines, water reservoirs, hills and vineyards.

Timber-clad service building with a glazed corner and adjoining covered structure.
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Timber-clad winery building with a deep overhanging roof and vertical wood slats.
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The objective was to accomplish a coherent order to all actions that are to be considered in a wine-producing project for a leading winery in Chile.

More than a form, we established a structural criterion that would be similar to all constructions to be built in this land.

Open service bay in a timber-clad winery building, with a tractor parked outside.
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Low-angle view of pale timber braces beneath a roof overhang and dark horizontal louvers.
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The vineyard's entry, office area, field houses, wine cellar, hotel and productive services are part of the constructions that occupy no more than 0,5% of the territory (+-12.000sqM).

It's purpose is to serve more than 300 Há of planted fields.

Wide view of the winery service complex, with timber-clad volumes around an open yard.
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Close view of vertical timber supports and dark louvered panels at the building edge.
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The Project considers vineyard's entry, roads and paths, different planting fields and water reservoirs' locations, based on the purpose to harmonize the agroindustrial work (typical of a wine-producing industry), with specialized tourism.

The Productive Services buildings establish a counterpoint between nature and architecture with geometric and rigorous order, as opposed to the winding forms of existing topography.

Two slope-transverse volumes surround a Great interior Patio, constructing a geographic-scale void. In other words, an unbuilt body which frames a straight horizon, overlooking -thus not invading- a landscape made of subtle ondulations.

The structural system is based on the use of economic and local materials. In such a way, these could be used for future constructions to be built throughout time in different locations inside the wine-producing territory.

Interior timber structure with repeated diagonal braces and exposed roof framing.
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Long covered passage beneath a repeating timber roof structure.
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Open timber-framed interior with a concrete floor and glazed wall at one end.
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Architectural elevation drawing of the winery service buildings along a sloping site.
Architectural elevation drawing of a long, low building with surrounding trees.
Architectural elevation drawing of a long facade set into sloping terrain.


Winery site plan showing roads, contours, planted areas and building locations.
Site plan showing building layouts, paths and contour lines across sloping terrain.
Plan drawing of the winery’s productive-services complex, showing its central circular layout and surrounding work areas.


Elevation sketch of a long winery building, with a central row of openings and trees along the roofline.
Axonometric sketch of the productive-services complex arranged around a large interior courtyard.
Perspective sketch of a long rectangular building volume with a framed opening at one end.
Architectural studies of a long building volume, a framed opening, and a wall detail.
Two perspective sketches of the complex’s courtyard arrangement and surrounding building volumes.


Interior perspective sketch looking through a room toward the landscape, with tables and chairs in the foreground.
Aerial landscape sketch of vineyard fields, winding access roads, and scattered buildings.


Architectural section detail showing the roof, wall assembly, and foundation at the base of a building.
Architectural section drawing showing the building envelope, roof assembly, and foundation on sloping ground.

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