V I N I

by @dgarch & @20eightdesign

Wine farm: Tasting room and guest suites in Umbria

A Sensory experience awaits as you sip on the nectar of gods overlooking the raw honest Umbrian valley nestled within the walls of a structure encompassed by seductive earth masses. This is where you realise that the landscape surrounding you has a more prevailing and endearing power than we, as humans, can comprehend - whilst vaguely acknowledging the majestic presence of the earth we are, in fact, looking back in time without realising it. The sun has risen and set in many cycles before you and will continue doing so after you are gone, the power of mother nature will always prevail. How do we tread between her delicate sheets to empower her graces whilst allowing the art of architecture to shine in a respectful way? It is simply impossible for human beings to understand the concept of time in relation to the existence of stone/-hill/-mountain/-cliff/-sea/-earth- and the history of the universe. All these elements are a representation of the unintelligible age of mother nature and her complex systems.