With space at a premium, imagine a wine
room or cellar without boundaries or barriers, an environment free from
conventional thought and restrictions, a wine room created to successfully
achieve the delicate balance between form and function, while reflecting the
needs and life style of the modern homeowner.
The new "wine-matrix" allows
for maximum usage of space with the focus on utilization and optimization, thus
allowing the homeowner, apartment dweller or loft inhabitant to maximize the
usage of the space at hand.
The new approach to vinotecture is to
challenge the way we look at space, so we may better understand the problem. Modern
wine design must move away from a one-dimensional approach to design and to
think of the wine-room as a multi-dimensional canvas. The static, cluttered,
restricted and unchanging wine-room of the past must now evolve into a living
stage, a place where it is possible to create an environment that alters old
beliefs about space and structure and infuse new concepts that reflect the
needs of today’s modern collector.
Today’s wine-room has grown far from
its primary function of storage to that of “the social center”, where
friends and family gather to share, rejuvenate and commune together. The walls have come down and this once hidden
and isolated domain has now become apart of a larger social arena. It can serve
as a hide away for quite reflection, or a place to gather for family fun and
social entertaining.
Today’s wine-room can be open to the
rest of the home, and as such, the wine-room must now function on several
levels, from storing and aging to social interaction, to entertainment center.
More furniture, than racking, the modern wine-room must blend seamlessly into
the living areas of the home,
I love the innovative idea of a wine room underneath the stairs.
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