Wine shop and winery "In Vino Veritas" project details and renders
Hi everybody! Here is some additional material about the project with which I took part in the Dialux Evo Competition 2016, of which I posted an image that I found on DIAL GmbH some days ago: since it raised some interest, I decided to share some more details and renders, coupled with the technical description of the project.
NOTE: The project was created by me from scratch only to take part in the competition, but I really put my passion and effort into it. I hope you'll appreciate it!
The project aims at evoking the atmosphere of an ancient wine cellar, at the same time re-interpreting such a theme in a contemporary way. The space is rectangular in plan with crossed vaults and pillars. The furniture on the sides of the space is minimal and black, so not to distract from the main focus of the shop: the products and the scenic background, where a group of pictures - representing part of a huge grape painted in watercolour - are shown, lightened from below to create a dramatic effect.
The bottles on the shelves are illuminated by track-mounted spotlights, carefully targeted at each single column of bottles. Additional spotlights point at the barrels behind the windows and at the tap wines on the back wall of the shop. The vaults are highlighted by linear uplights mounted on track as well: this way the architecture of the space is more easily readable.
In the central area, from the top of each vault, a set of suspended double adjustable luminaires hang: they are necessary in order to provide a visual light path from the entrance of the shop to the counter at the back. At the entrance of the shop there is an area devoted to wine degustation, where everyone can serve him or herself with a good glass of wine, wandering around the space or just sitting and have a relaxing break in the sofas area. The colours chosen for the sofas and armchairs are directly taken from the painting: they represent the perfect colour palette for grapevines and wine.
Daylight enters the space both from the west entrance, that is dark gray-green glazed (for sunlight protection), and from the semicircular windows on the south: since the ironwork fences are shaped as grapes and grape leaves, when the sun hits them, it creates shadows resembling those of a vineyard.
Since light - both artificial and daylighting - can spoil wine there is only the necessary amount of light coming from light sources, and only a little of daylighting is let in by the windows.
