Project: Wine Hospitality Pavilion
Location: Dry Creek Valley,
west of Healdsburg, CA
Region: California’s Wine Country

Climate:
A lush agricultural valley approximately 30 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. An abundance of sunshine throughout the year and a moderate amount of rainfall, ideal growing conditions for grapes.

Context:
A long and narrow agricultural valley clad in grape vineyards that produce some of the finest wines in the world. Small wineries are scattered throughout the valley floor that is flanked on both sides by dense oak groves.

Brief Description:
One of California’s most prestigious wineries has proposed a wine hospitality facility at the northern most edge of their Dry Creek vineyard as a destination to host wine aficionados, writers, family, friends, and guests. The pavilion is designed as a transition space between their wine storage caves and the vineyards, with outstanding views to the Dry Creek Valley below. Bands of overlapping concrete roofs facilitate the integration of indoors and outdoors and dissolve the concept of enveloping structure. The massive stone walls to the entrance of the caves and the elegant stone columns of the pavilion contrast with the sleek concrete roof segments to imply a new contemporary structure addition to a historic structure.

Guiding Metaphor:
Reconstructing the ruins of a historic agricultural structure.

Structural Systems:
Dry-laid stone, steel, and cast-in-place concrete.