Silver Winner of the International Architecture & Design Awards 2023
Viña Seña, Quincho and Lookout Point.
Architecture
Custom
Built / Professional Category
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.
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.