A minor interference would be a couple of steel cables that attach the upper glulam beams to the ground in order to prevent lateral movement and uplifting forces. On the North side of the building, a horizontal mast that rises from the floor’s concrete slab is needed to carry these forces to the ground that slopes down there. A muscular spatial steel structure made up of variable circular hollow sections holds the GLULAM roof’s structure to thick exposed concrete walls which then carry all forces to heavy, bulky concrete foundations. All the glass panes that envelope the tasting room slide into a cavity in the concrete walls. The room’s cantilevered limit glass panes are meant to be closed and opened by what is called a ‘turnable corner window system”. The 16-meter cantilevered roof structure would be made up of glulam beams cheated over and under by two layers of OSB panels.
The space in between is filled with thermal insulation. The upper skin of the roof is waterproofed with a thermoplastic membrane and finished with a replaceable, if needed, IPÊ hard wood system that let rain water pass through it. This IPÊ roof cladding echoes the wine wood barrels where they rest for a while in their making process. All exposed concrete should be tinted ocre-ish, the color of the local soil, and textured wood-like. The building is made basically of earthy, solid, heavy and stably grounded concrete, wine-barrels wood, steel pipes and transparent glass when needed. There are also a couple of restrooms and a dark reflective water pond with water plants at the entry. Either cooled or heated air would be supplied via a linear grille on the wood floor longitudinally installed under the big linear tables´s axis. The table also houses sinks with water supply, wine bottles and glass storage. Wood also finishes the underside of the roof and the flying part of the concrete slab.
