Vineum - Wine Cellars in Cornaiano

The international restricted competition program is the renovation of some ancient underground wine cellars into a modern wine museum complex in the village of Cornaiano. The site is surrounded by a fascinating landscape deeply characterized by vineyards, hills and mountains. The aim of the project is to establish an impressive relationship beetween the enviroment and the new modern building. That's why the whole project has been planned as a revival of the local building peculiarities. The entriance of the museum is the only part of the new building standing on the ground level. Its ground floor is cladded all around the first level by glass facades in order to invite the visitors to have a look of the inner spaces. On the other hand the roof looks like an opaque surface following the concept of the erratic stone carried by glaciers in the ancient times. Therefore the entriance of the museum is conceived as a landmark in the center of the village while the exhibition itinerary is underground arranged through the basements of the historical existing wine cellars. All the paths across the museum exhibition are characterized by curved shapes as long as the smooth hills and sharpen mountains describe the Trentino-Alto adige landscape.