A new adega for the Azores Wine Company is located within the Unesco World Heritage vineyard landscape of Pico Island, one of the nine islands that form the mid-Atlantic, Azorean archipelago. In a manner not dissimilar to the island’s traditional wineries – small-scale structures located along the coast where wine was produced and family and friends were welcomed – the building combines spaces of production with those of conviviality and extended domesticity, within a single coherent form.

▼项目与周边环境概览

overall of the project and surrounding environment

皮科是一座火山岛，常年的海风吹拂最终形成了以岩石为主的自然地貌。建筑师将酒庄的平面布局根据崎岖的自然地形进行了调整，地形和地平线之间的变化关系在环绕场地的回廊中得到了呼应，连续室外坡道沿着边界墙逐渐升起，将建筑与周围自然景观融为一体。

The precision of the plan form is adjusted in section to follow the rugged terrain, which rises from the rocky, windswept coastline to the cone of Pico mountain, the volcano that dominates the island. The changing relationship between topography and horizon is experienced in the movement around the reduced form of this cloister like edge, where a continuously ramping, exterior path climbs from within the shelter of the bounding wall to address the landscape.

▼项目远观，viewing the project at distance

▼由历史葡萄园一侧看建筑，viewing the project from the the vineyard

本项目的设计让人不禁联想到带有封闭式庭院的修道院，修道院不仅是皮科岛最重要的历史宗教建筑，同时也是岛上最初生产葡萄酒的地方。建筑简洁的几何体量定义了位于场地中心的花园，带有顶棚的长廊勾勒出花园的轮廓，为室外空间赋予了亲人的尺度，同时与远处的自然景观形成了对比。

Recalling the cloistered courtyard typologies of the religious institutions, Pico’s most significant historical structures and the communities for whom wine was first produced, the building’s simple, geometrical volume defines a garden at its centre. Enclosed by a covered perimeter, this intimate exterior space counterpoints the scale of the landscape beyond.

▼建筑外墙由干砌石构成，the exterior walls of the building are constructed of dry stacked stone