Idea and motivation
The Scheidgen winery is located in the small winegrowing village of Hammerstein on the northern Middle Rhine. Since 1779 and now seven generations of winemakers, the name has stood for excellent wines, for the preservation of nature, the environment and traditions in harmonious interplay with modern technology and innovative cultivation methods. Life around wine. In 2014, the sensitive winemaker and cellar master Georg Scheidgen met the architect Thomas Steinhardt and talked about the work in the vineyard and in the cellar, the joy of high quality and the will to become even better. About the preservation of the landscape, the love of nature and the view of even the little things. About the philosophy of satisfying customers and giving the best.
It is precisely these values that Thomas Steinhardt interprets the architecture for the next generation of the winery. It is a few, simple but high-quality materials that will shape the architectural reprofiling of the winery. These are wood, stone and metal! Implementation
The new bottling hall is attached to the ancient quarry stone barn and is now being transformed into a staged interior wall that dominates the room. The strong contrast to the modern interpretation of traditional building materials and the very simple design, which comes purely from function, creates a wonderful workspace.
On the site of the former machine shed, a new vinotheque has now also been built. At the entrance to the new winery, the visitor experiences this as a cubic building that is completely open over the corner, whose massive outer and inner walls are made of greywacke, thus forming a strong formal contrast to the opening. These solid walls are made of the same material from which the ancient wine cellars and the vineyard walls in Scheidgen's winery were built with great craftsmanship.
The new vinotheque replaces an old tasting room from the 80s. The idea of clear and easy-to-read design structures is created by a very graphically and orthogonally planned line structure. The few equipment items and also the graphics of the lighting concept are subordinate to this principle. A tension between strict graphics and complementary surfaces develops. Concrete, natural stone, metal and wood dominate again. The surfaces and grains of the long oak wood counters are made entirely of a continuous trunk. All handle strips are perfectly crafted and concealed.
Through the large glass fronts, you can see the winery's signet from afar, which is designed as a new business card floating on the wall surface, which is covered with silver leaf as a passe-partout. In the evening hours or at night, the graphic image of the façade is reversed. With its uniformly designed lighting concept of spotlights, uplights like a huge lantern, the building shines like a huge lantern. The light gives the rough masonry, the oak and the textured silver surface a unique softness that corresponds to the rough concrete of the building construction.
Source: Heinrich+Steinhardt Architekten
Photos: KALZIP/Heinrich+Steinhardt Architekten
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