Headquarters of the Denominación de Origen Ribera del Duero

The fundamental condition of this project is the edge, next to the historic rampart where the building is sited and at the limit of Roa de Duero, between the artificial and the natural, the urban and the rural landscape. The building program, intended to house the headquarters of the Consejo Regulador (Regulatory Board) of the Ribera del Duero wine region, includes offices, emblematic spaces and a small auditorium; uses that revolve around the idea of public space. The project is built in Roa with local stone masonry. It is conceived of as a solemn, massive element, reinforcing the idea of an anti-modern building, a building of unlimited durability, built with a material that mutates and changes with the passage of time. The relation between the building and the historical traces of the place reveal a reality that explains and revalues the specific context. A new reality, the fruit of a series of improbable and unexpected factors.

Credits

Headquarters of the Denominación de Origen Ribera del Duero

Location:
c/Hospital 6, 09300 Roa, España

Architects:
BAROZZI / VEIGA Fabrizio Barozzi y Alberto Veiga

Team:
Agnieszka Samsel, Paulo Lopes, Tanja Oppowa, Antonio Pinto, Antonis Vourexakis. BOMA SL. (Estructuras), Grupo JG SA. (Instalaciones).

Area:
4.146 m2

Photography:
Simon Menges

2006-2011