Located in the area of Rioja Alta, the Beronia Winery in Ollauri developed by Borja Gómez and Gonzalo Tello of IDOM is an intricate winery structure embedded in a slope, leaving the production area underground and placing the social program above ground.

Beronia Winery has been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

The surrounding slopes are very gentle, forming a plateau on which the lands of the vineyard extend, dotted with small hills. This plateau is dominated to the north and south by mountain formations.

“The winery is structured around two large program blocks. The productive program, below ground level, and the social and wine tourism program, is above ground level,” explains IDOM.

Living accommodation is on the upper floor of the building, grapes are received on the ground floor, and in the basement are the fermentation vats, embedded in the land. This construction guaranteed the thermal stability of the wine so effectively that they ended up colouring the subsoil of the surrounding villages.

– Production by gravity: the loading of the grapes is carried out at the upper level, processing in a descending manner.

– Taking advantage of thermal inertia: the wine production, aging, and storage spaces are below ground.

– Integration into the landscape, connecting the landscape of the upper and lower level through the building itself.

Each building has a different relationship with light and views, depending on the limitations of the wine itself. The tanks traditionally buried and without light, are completely open to the landscape and protected from direct radiation. The barrels receive a slight indirect light filtered by the program of the social zone. The warehouse containing the cages has no natural light. The production halls are designed using prestressed slabs, precast pillars, and high-rise precast retaining walls.

Streamlining the construction process, eliminating the need for temporary formwork, improving the safety of the work and the finishes.

In addition, the southern area, with greater geometric complexity, is resolved by means of an in-situ structure and a large post-tensioned slab calculated as a single piece that acts as a sunshade and roof.

The structure is closely related to the building’s conditioning strategy. Combining tradition and innovation, a semi-passive system is used that seeks to achieve great resilience in its design. Both the precast buildings and in-situ concrete are activated (where necessary) by means of a GEO-TABS system.

Project: Beronia Winery in Ollauri Architects: IDOM Lead Architects: Borja Gómez and Gonzalo Tello General Contractor: Evalarra Construcciones, S.L. Client: Bodegas Beronia S.A. Photographers: Francesco Pinton and Manuel Bouzas

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