After a brief but successful trajectory of almost a decade elaborating quality wines, the need for a space for logistics, bottle aging and wine tasting arises in Mas Rodo. The engagement asks to articulate the space between the existing expedition area and the winery located in an old reformed “masia”, while it has to respond to a dual program.

On the one hand, the new building must accommodate a space for the aging of wine in bottle, organized in stackable steel crates, as well as streamlining logistics, ensuring a good relationship with the warehouse of finished product and shipment with which it borders. On the other, it wants to complement the quality winery activity with a space for tasting and exposing Mas Rodo wines open to the public, looking for a direct link with the environment and the winery.

The first calls for a quiet space, dry, with controlled temperature, and no light or very dim. It is proposed therefore a semi-subterranean building, attached to the old warehouse, which makes the polyvalent use porch as a pillow space that protects it from the radiation of the south, while a ventilated facade of concrete block to the south and west allows to cool interior environment. On the contrary, the second one is proposed as a space that is open to the environment, semi-exterior, in the form of a two-level porch, to connect with the level of the main access plaza, the cellar and the road to the vineyard. This 45-centimeter jump allows you to contract the interior space, frame it, and offer a space for resting and sitting.

Among them, a transition space relates both programs: a wine cellar with samples of all the vintages, as a historical archive that can be visited, while also allowing vertical tastings - same wine, different harvest year - for exclusive visits or professionals. Structurally, a system of walls and concrete screens is conceived as a continuation of the screeds and pavements - massive and resistant - that support a light system of metal trusses. A lightweight, almost weightless roof, seeks to cover the space with three different uses: a sloping roof of concrete tile for the cellar, a walkable deck with wooden platform as a raised gazebo - in relation to the garden of the house - closed by a railing-bar for the tasting; and a cantilever planter for planting different vine varieties - all existing on the site -. The latter drains through a gargoyle that casts the water with a perfect parabolic trajectory on a bathtub located on the access pavement.

The geometry of the planter follows the roof inclination of the old farmhouse - the winery - with which it is related. It is conceived as a cantilever on the terrace of the porch, makes a visor, provides shade, contracts the lower space and frames the viticultural landscape while providing freshness through the thermal inertia of their lands. It is therefore a light structure for an elevated vineyard. A weightless vineyard.