CADA CUBA HUELE AL VINO TIENE /

EVERY CASK  SMELLS OF THE WINE IT CONTAINS

LONDON DESIGN AWARD SILVER WINNER

DP INSPIRATION AWARD: DESIGN OF THE YEAR WINNER

LOCATION: SPAIN, LOGRONO

YEAR: 2017

GFA: 137 SQM

STATUS: BUILT

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The Cooper’s Cabin, is a devotional space dedicated to Rioja wine. It is a pure distillation of not only the region; its soil, climate, and grapes but also the wooden barrels used in the wine’s maturation. 

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Formally, each Cabin has been designed as a deconstructed wine barrel, the poplar plywood forming the staves and riveted wooden rings acting as hoops holding the whole construction together. The inside face of the wood has been stained a deep purple with the wine of the surrounding vineyards.

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Experientially, each Cabin is entered ceremonially through a low door. Your eyes are directed towards the ground where a wine-hued light represents the earth, then as you stand you see the sky above framed in a hooped oculus. As you begin to look about you notice the deep color of the wood around you and then the scent of the wine-soaked wood. It is an all-encompassing sensory experience that makes you a part of Logroño and the Rioja region.