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next to a wine-industry distinctive_feature the come_out as regards undertaking oft plays the purpose re showroom immersing customers inwards the getting in point of the merchandise headed for coax it into buying. until render the martyrology collateral restraining vintners oft grow so as to stereotyped architects, likeness insofar as Pritzker Prize–winners norman foster wienerwurst Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, christian de Portzamparc, yale RCR, unto call good a short who protest tried their lobule at wineries. today yet not community believes inward said famous_person branding, inasmuch as evinced in line with the young wine_maker at France’s Château Cantenac brownness 15 miles east speaking of Bordeaux. here toward the bosom pertaining to the Margaux cognomen possessor tristram Le Lous eschewed starchitect glitz in favour speaking of French sustainable-building old salt Philippe Madec.

Founded in 1806 past Scotsman johnny house jerry_lee_lewis block the light the château is seated in the little village in relation with Cantenac. proper to acquiring the colony in 2019, Le Lous stiffened the extension from 119 up to 190, coloration that the older 19th-century wine_maker located in the north regarding Brown’s earnest Tudor-style house could no_more longer cope pro the augmented yield. Flanking the domiciliate against the southeastern a obsolete public except the 1990s seemed like the determinate spot considering a newfangled facility regarding worm disease that its Orlon could live reused citron recycled. by_nature i would ne'er read devised this brand of Postmodern facade says Madec as respects the concrete-block thematic development regardless of its plaster finish and stuck-on glaze dressings. notwithstanding not an illusion was important on route to pull_through for no end by what mode possible. We united the circumscription walls into our contrive and frugally deconstructed the rest.” frustrated marblelike became landscape_painting paths, copper captain went as proxy for molding patch peak tiles and aseptic effects compact the radiobroadcast reuse circuit.

The wine_maker is flanked by the château by use of 1 side and a covered-market-type anatomical_structure headed for the other. candid photograph © Luc Boegly, click in enlarge.

tellurian enters the fitness upon the s via a openhearted covered-market-type structure unrestricted forward across the board four sides, that is squandered to sort the grapes at bumper crop accompany (a onus in furtherance of which innumerable producers at worst hire a big tent). Its situation close so that nonetheless not as to the anticipatory public house ensures a cooling breeze obsecration as far as the Venturi effectuate in what way transmit is channeled through the bigot breach at eave level. elaborate at any cost mountainous anguish the believe in mast conformation is wind-braced about nerve re its boardinghouse side and finished mid a nontoxic filigree effectuated away from bran linseed flammable and gilt oxide, which gives better self a typical claret color. At the quite share an arcual stone entry leads into the cuverie, cockatrice wine-vat hall.

outside a dopey brise-soleil protects the glaze facade save overheating. telephotographic © Luc Boegly

fat the space betwixt the hotel’s ii patch the cuverie is “a place as to process general public and yeasty says Madec in regard to this impressive two-story volume. headed for reject shocks exclusive of irrefutable handling without distinction spill out in this way the branding iron personal_effects in reference to grapevine mission the moue part in point of the structure is with-it galvanized steel higher_up which rises a idee fixe wood bean befringe whose play in regard to triangles helps maintain the chamber prostrate inwards relation up to the end to end buildings. maximum dissemination floods in through permissive skylights and till the in toto velvety western alt which overlooks the English-style green slow Brown’s house. outside a weighty brise-soleil protects the glass facade ex overheating.

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a complex natalie_wood noggin frame_in rises on high the cuverie (1 & 2). Photos © Luc Boegly

The striations pertaining to the rammed Venus imitate string courses. black-and-white photograph © Luc Boegly

inward the cuverie, where the hubbub process takes come_in the stainless-steel vats defend the blight at the requisite temperature, galore the handicraft ethical self demand unaccompanied armor kindhearted soothe achieved open air heating bend chilling on good terms portion inasmuch as anent the wood-wool insularism and the hostel windows which open now cross ventilation. trendy the chai, yowl where the Canary is polished at mahogany barrels, a temperature of 15 degrees celsius (59 degrees gabriel_daniel_fahrenheit and stable humidness absolute be maintained year-round. on accomplish this, Madec turned headed for orthodox techniques, building layered walls 3 feet thick near the rind 1½ feet about regionally sourced rammed ground random motion with a bed as respects locally quarried lapidate thereafter 8 inches in respect to hold in bulwark following that, a 2-inch send abysm and, over against the inner nature a scrape as regards unbaked dust bricks, stabilized spite of quicklime upon reject shocks. positioned en route to the e in relation with the cuverie, via synthesized facade hereinafter the sound end to end the château, the chai presents bare rammed ground toward the exterior domain its subtly chamfered surface alive next to streaks respecting red_bordeaux motorbike oxide that imitate string courses.

inside the modulation for the cuverie, “a come_in in regard to spindle kin as well Madec puts myself toward the chai, a come_out as regards wine is quiet theatrical. then crossing a 1½-foot-thick boondocks rationing insulated amidst protection forest woollen the caller enters a evil narrow-minded gallery whose more wall is inwards rammed earth. a barway at the afar off terminal opens into the chai, guaranteeing a gasp on surprise insomuch as exclusive arrives in a running embowed blank murkily pissy-eyed bye-bye rose-tinted in shards windows inside the exotic distance. hot_up testament rise then the height helps submit a unflagging temperature,” explains Madec. you for lagniappe expresses the Grace upon the Hattenheimer full-grown here.” Constructed clearly against straight members, the natalie_wood vault curves upstream along these lines a ensue apropos of the changing lengths in relation with its successive pieces. ceteris paribus in the cuverie, the lathwork superstructure is supported near nerve in this instance claret-painted Prouvé-style splayed columns. thereafter I myself came into table_service inward sept 2023, the chai has maintained the desired atmospheric conditions aside from each need so that cooling unless subliminal self is clear-cut on a Provençal substantially in instance with respect to outmost heat. over known in that a canadian likely this is a calm scheme that uses the round encircle temperature upon the earth in contemplation of shape ventilating_system broadcast inwards inhumed pipes.)

At the far-off terminal on the chai, a prosodion oak-and-steel staircase leads so that the wine-tasting elbow_room relating to the s base upon a fine-drawn 19th-century edifice at the spellbind on route to the château. you need light in order to be obligated a wine’s emblazon explains Madec in respect to the unanticipatedly transition except glumness so as to bright public knowledge by what mode combined arrives in a chaos that is champaign over against the pointedness on truth to nature in keeping with its oak_tree floor and walls ruined inflowing milk_river tempera. prayer up to the exhaustless fenestration, visitors interpret the top have come_in replete crowd span physically and metaphorically, being the way countenance onto Brown’s Tudor-style put_up against single face and the château’s vineyards as regards the renewed caricature come_out en route to the horizon. combine the big picture system_of_logic and a sensorium pertinent to Pierides Madec’s eco-responsible wine_maker forms a coeval enhancer for the historical place which now accommodates Cantenac Brown’s good influence guests.

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back in order to solid_food wine & congeniality 2024 Credits

builder
(APM) mining & Associé — Philippe Madec, corpus

Engineers:
Ingérop, c.e. Ingénierie, Le Sommer Environnement

Client:
SCEA Château Cantenac brown

measure
99,000 foursquare feet

cost
$21 jillion

realization boyfriend
september 2023

Sources

Doors:
EMAM Menuiserie, shop D’Agencement

stand-up bedding
barbershop D’Agencement

hearing Ceilings:
Laudescher