quinta do crasto's old cellar and winery
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Located in the heart of the Douro Valley, Quinta do Crasto takes place in an alive, evolutionary, and wine cultured landscape. Within this spirit, the refurbishment project of its facilities answers to the current reality of the wine industry, between production and tourism, embodying its technological, strategic, and environmental challenges. Set between production and tourism, the scope of the project is to empower Quinta do Crasto’s artisanal way, while implementing a cutting-edge technological update of facilities, and promoting new uses for the existing cellars. The intervention resets the existing layout, so as to avoid its seasonal usage. It promotes the coexistence of different activities between production, visiting, and tasting, by coordinating the paths of visitors, of the wine, and of the staff. This system uses a strategic set of unlevelled gangways which autonomize these paths, between the refurbished buildings. Technology and Nostalgy is the motto. As in winemaking, we reduced and concentrated, nourishing a sense a depth, through the loss of flavourless matter which dilutes, striving to accentuate character.

Project

2017

Construction

2019

Client

Quinta do Crasto, SA

Location

Gouvinhas, Sabrosa, Vila Real

Area

520 m² (old cellar)

435 m² (winery)

Architecture

Francisco Vieira de Campos

Project Team 

Inês Mesquita, Francesco Bottaro, Gonçalo Castro

Structures

Rui Oliveira, Projectos Unipessoal Lda

Hydraulics

Rui Oliveira, Projectos Unipessoal Lda

Electrics and Telecommunication

Raul Serafim - Raul Serafim&Associados Lda

Fire Safety Systems

Maria da Luz Santiago - AFA Consult Lda

Heating 

Raul Bessa - GET, Lda

Winery Equipment Installation

INI.SA

Constructor

Moreira da Silva, Lda

Photography

Vasco Maia Lopes - Colecção Quinta do Crasto

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