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HERITAGE—A WINEMAKING FORTRESS
The name originates from their wish to unite the professional and life experience acquired in the United States with the culture of their native country.
In order to achieve this new degree of livability and belonging, the architectural beams painted white create a common thread bringing the various sections togeth-
design used ordinary, ancient tools, namely materials and colors, which inspired er. The glass screen that protects and at the same time displays the stainless steel
the geometry used to connect and integrate the existing production blocks. The winemaking tanks, the “intrados [windows] that channel all possible light into the
vertical zinc-titanium slats in terracotta used for the lower part of the facade form an of ces, and the raised outer edge that visually seems to lift the building, preventing
optical illusion at eye level where they meet other grey slats, which extend vertically contact with the ground and the consequent deterioration of the external facade,” as
towards the sky along the upper section. The corrugated aluminum sheet forming Maurizio Condoluci explains, are all design features that combine attention to daily
the cover, the aluminum used for the external loading bay and the 30-meter steel life with care for the construction details.
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