Silver Winner of the International Architecture & Design Awards 2023
Architect / Designer:
Germán del Sol.
Studio:
Germán del Sol, Architects.
Design Team:
Alicia León, architect.
 Francisca Schuler, architect.
 Carlos Venegas, architect.
Copyright:
Guy Wenborne.
Country:
Chile
Viña Seña.
 Quincho and Lookout Point.
The Master Plan that we did for Seña
 Vineyard, included in the first place,
 the construction of a Quincho and Vista
 Point, enhancing the curved vineyards
 with straight walls built out of big
 existing stones, repairing gravel roads,
 building an appropriate entrance gate,
 some fences, etc.,
The objective of the Master Plan is to
 convert the existing Seña vineyard, into
 a place that may seduce travelers from
 Chile and from all over the World to
 come and enjoy a unique experience of
 the natural and cultural beauty of the
 Chilean country culture, that is reflected
 in the splendor of a vineyard, that has
 the privilege to produce Premium wine
 via biodynamic farming.
A good Master Plan has to place the
 vineyard as a part of the whole
 landscape, in order to receive power and
 beauty from its relationship with the
 natural and cultural or cultivated
 landscape of the Aconcagua valley.
An entrance gate with the name Seña
 appears on the access road to the
 Vineyard coming from Ocoa, so that
 there is an ample and luminous space
 for the entrance.
The road, slowly undulates between the
 vineyards and goes, without needing
 anymore explanation or signs, from the
 entrance to the Vineyard, to the lookout.
We are focused on discovering
 everything that the Seña Vineyard and
 its natural and cultural surroundings
 have in its splendor, in order to combine
 them in a superior experience,
 is to be the result of the plan.
Germán del Sol, Architects.
Saturated color
 because our world
 is not white,
 and white reflects a
 purity that is alien to us
 and seems dead to us. 
Thick and imprecise line
 to be firm,
 but subtly insecure,
 accepting the error,
 affirming and doubting
 the certainties
 that architecture provides
 to human life. 
Deep and true search
 for a relationship
 with the native cultures
 of all Latin America
 without being folkloric. 
The movement must
 be contained
 in the experience
 of the work in a place,
 the turns are necessary
 to respond to life as it is,
 there is no sculpture,
 no decorative artifice.


