Touton Architects

Clos Romanile Winery

Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme

CLOS ROMANILE WINERY

Touton Architectes

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Edouard Touton

PHOTOGRAPHS
Denis Lacharme

AREA
68 m²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Saint-émilion, France

CATEGORY
Winery

Text description provided by architect.

This first winery building in the region to be made of rammed earth, this low-budget project integrates a small agricultural shed and a professional tasting room adjacent to the winery of this independent winemaker.

Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme

The large central wall is therefore built using an age-old construction technique: rammed earth.

The earth is compressed manually in layers directly on-site, giving it materiality of rare intensity.

Here the eye is not the only sense stimulated by the architecture.

Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme

Other simple but dignified, natural, and bio-based materials are kept to a minimum.

Stone for the foundations, untreated raw wood for the structure, a lime/hemp mixture that insulates the corrugated iron roof.

Thanks to the thermal inertia of this south-facing wall, the north-facing light intake and roof, and a small stove serving as a back-up in the depths of winter, tastings can take place all year round without the slightest energy consumption.

Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme


Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme
Clos Romanile Winery
© Denis Lacharme


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