Domaire de Beaucastel/
Studio Mediterranee & Studio Mumbai
Project Details
Location(City/Country):
Courthézon, Provence / France
Tipology:
Winery Landscape
Year (Design/Construction):
2018 / 2024
Area (Net/Gross):
7500 m2 / 8000 m2
Operational Carbon emissions (B6) kgCO2e/m2/y:
-
Embodied Carbon emissions (A1-A3) kgCO2e/m2:
-- The buildings are constructed exclusively out of the earth excavated from the site or recuperated material from the former buildings in place, exploring 3 different techniques following the 3 types of earth found.
- Half of the construction is underground in order to benefit from the cool earth temperature.
- The new cellar is refreshed to 15 degrees all year thanks to fully natural air condition in operated via a wind tower catching the wind, « mistral » and cooling it via an 1800 m3 roof-recovered water cistern.
General description to explain the project in more detail. Design principles, planning condition client brief, a more elaborated description of the Green Features and etcetera.
The client, the PERRIN Family, owner of Beaucastel wine estate since 5 generation organized architectural competition in 2018 that the joined offices STUDIO MUMBAI / Bijoy Jain et MEDITERRANEE / Louis-Antoine Grégo won.
The PERRIN family wanted with that competition to slightly enlarge the winery, and modernize the
equipment and buildings in order to be more energy efficient and have building that personalize more the spirit of their sharp natural wine making process.
Studio Mediterranée was established by the author in Nice in 2016. It is a structure that hosts both an architecture and a carpentry studio and follows the following principles:
(1) The systematic us of site material; or local, bio-sourced, and natural materials;
(2 ) The use of natural resources and energies;
(3 ) Preference for careful renovation, with the reuse of materials for new buildings
(4 ) On-site, participatory, and experimental architecture
In every project, the hope is to develop a long-term reasonable and responsible scheme, in which wisdom and tradition, harmoniously combined with progress and modernity, would bond architecture and landscape in a single entity by the collaborative act of making.
- Architects: Bijoy Jain & Louis-Antoine Grégo
- Structural Engineer: Phillipe Clément / Batiserf
- HVAC & process engineer: Ingérop
- Landscape: Tom Stuart Smith / TSS
- Photographer: Louis-Antoine Grégo
