The new building will appear in the Ribera del Duero region, famous for its fine wine. His plan will be a three-pointed star, which is due to the requirements of production technology. A bunker for the primary processing of the harvested grapes will be arranged in the center. Cars loaded with berries will be able to drive up to it on the roofs of two wings of the building. Then the squeezed grape juice will go to the "beam", where steel tanks for fermentation are located. It will then be sent to an adjacent wing, where it will mature in barrels. At the final stage, the wine will be bottled and stored in the third section of the winery.
The room with steel tanks is completely above the ground to facilitate the release of carbon dioxide from fermentation; its walls are glazed, and visitors will be able to observe the production process from the outside.
The other two wings, on the contrary, are sunk into the ground, so this very position creates optimal conditions for wine maturation.
The walls of the winery will be clad in earthy Corten steel panels to help the building blend in with the surrounding landscape. Solar panels will be installed on the roof, which will reduce the negative impact of the building on the ecological situation of the territory.
The building also includes premises for visitors (it is for them that the owners of similar enterprises in Spain and other European countries invite Frank Gehry, Stephen Hall, Santiago Calatrava and other famous architects to develop projects for new buildings), and they are all concentrated in the upper tier. Observation decks are located next to the winery control center in the middle of the building, as well as along the central axes of the "beams". The complex will also include tasting cafes and a restaurant, the interiors of which will be decorated with planks of old wine barrels, deeply soaked in wine.
Faustino Winery is due to open in December 2007; 1,000,000 bottles of red wine will be produced there annually.
