Architects:Diogo Aguiar Studio

Year :2018

Photographs :Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Engineering : NCREP

Construction : CS Construtora

Client : Aveleda, SA

Equipe De Projeto : Diogo Aguiar, Daniel Mudrák, Adalgisa Castro Lopes

City : Penafiel

Country : Portugal

Located in Penafiel, Portugal, Quinta da Aveleda is one of the main producers of vinho verde in the country and enjoys an unusual built heritage surrounded by beautiful gardens.

The reconversion of a former agricultural building (barn) to a wine tourism building is based on the spatial potentialities of the pre-existing building and the creation of a visiting route in three acts. In opposition to the dense compartmentalization originally existing, the building is now organized in a succession of continuous spaces, formally related to the volumetry of the building: the tasting room (complemented by a small kitchen) - in one of the side wings -; the vinoteca and the mezzanine - in the central volume -; and the shop - in the remaining side wing;