The winery, which the Falcon-Blosser family founded in 1978, is today one of the largest and most famous in the state of Oregon. The total area of its territory is slightly more than 40 hectares. Last year, Allied Works Architecture commissioned a design for a new tasting room and a master plan for the adjacent site. The only condition that the customers set for the architects was the creation of a truly modern building from natural materials, which would become the hallmark of the winery and emphasize its commitment to sustainable ways of winemaking and eco-ideology in general.
Using the existing drop in relief, the architects transformed the site as a system of terraces, the smooth outlines of which seem to reproduce the picturesque Dundee Hills stretching around, where the grapes used to produce the best US wines grow. The terraces have open and fenced gardens, parking lots, and an open-air event space adjacent to the tasting room.
The building itself has a three-part structure: the volumes are placed on the same base and are interconnected, but have different shapes and areas, and the openings between them are organized in such a way as to "catch" the best views of the picturesque landscape and the nearby town of Yamhil, as well as the maximum provide the premises with daylight.
The central volume is occupied by the actual tasting room with a fireplace, a bar and an open terrace, and is flanked by a kitchen and a library. The underground level houses a wine cellar, which, in addition to storing wine, also provides an area for small private tastings.
In the decoration of facades, roofs and interiors, coniferous wood, in particular, cedar, was used. From the inside, the premises are sheathed with panels, the design of which is selected in such a way that the walls seem to be shaded with thin diagonal lines. But in the decoration of the facades, the architects used boards with deep grooves carved into them: according to the authors of the project, this texture resembles the "layout" of the vineyards located around.
