Leslie Jones Memorial Prize (RIBA) 2010
Michelle Evans (Unit E, Oxford Brookes University), The ritualistic veins of a winery – Celebration of wine tasting, 2009-2010
The project attempts to investigate cross programming the wine making process with the visitor routes, a winery allows visitors to celebrate and indulge in the art of winemaking through all the different stages. The ritualistic circulation system blurs the boundaries between public and private, ascend and descend, external and internal, sin and sacrament. The roof is integrated with transparent pipes (the veins of the architectural body), servicing and pumping crushed grape juice from the core (interception heart) to various levels of the topographical building. The building makes use of the natural slope of the landscape through a gravity flow system within the winery to minimise energy use and the need for hydraulic systems.
