The presented project is located in Shilda village, Kvareli municipality and represents an additional development of the existing wine factory.

Existing orography is characteristic Alazani Valley landscape, a never-ending field, full of vineyards. A huge valley is surrounded by distant mountains, with Caucasus glaciers on the Northside. The views and the solar orientation are the key factors for the planning.

The designed complex is situated on the West side of the existing factory and functionally represents, wine-related agrotourism infrastructure, with a winery as the main administrative building, hotel cabins, open-air swimming pool and helipad.

Ground-floor of the administrative building serves as reception and multifunctional event hall. On the underground floor, there is a wine storage factory. With barrels, tanks, traditional Georgian Qvevris, (underground ceramic vessels) bottle storage and isolated, glazed, degustation cabins. According to the different functional zoning and activities of the master plan, the building has 4 entrances. From the North-West side there’s access from the helipad, from the South-East side, the open swimming pool, from the North-East side it gathers the stream from the existing complex, and from South-West, there’s access to hotel cabins. The building also has a service entrance directly to the underground floor with a cargo elevator and an additional staircase.

From the South-West of the winery, there are 2 rows of sleeping cabins mirrored from each other. With 6 cabins in each. Both rows have a uniform, upper and lower slab which serves as a common recreational space for the individual cabins. Both rows of cabins are centrally aligned with the main building so they form one urban tissue on the same compositional axis.

Materials used in all the buildings, in both exterior and interior, is wooden cladding and concrete surface moulded in identical wooden planks.

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Type: Commission
Use: Winery, Hotel
Client: Private
Structure: Con Studio
MEP/HVAC: DLG Group
Size: 3200 m²
Place: Shilda, Kvareli, Georgia
Year: 2020

Team:
Tilman Haselhoff, Barbare Kacharava, Irakli Kotchlashvili, Nikoloz Lomidze, Lado Shonia, Gigi Shukakidze