Our client is an independent wine entrepreneur in South Florida.
This affluent Florida community consumes more than its share of wine and is home to the world’s most successful wine festival, raising $33 mil for charity earlier this year.
CHALLENGE
Place a wine bar, private club and wine store on a 1.5 acre site along a busy thoroughfare within a recently blighted neighborhood. Develop interior and exterior spaces that are experientially rich with pleasing views on a site where views beyond the site are unremarkable.
STRATEGY
Taking queues from Japanese Temple complexes, we placed the glass tasting room at the center of a courtyard. Perimeter is lined with wine bar, store, tasting rooms, kitchen and support. Native landscaping, wood decks and crushed shell help to define outdoor rooms.
Services in the central pavilion are hidden, and structure limited to vertical columns, providing an uninterrupted perimeter of glass that can be opened to the courtyard.
SUSTAINABILITY
Deep overhangs and proximity to adjacent structures reduce heat gain.
Low-E glass reduces solar gain and will withstand up to 200 mph winds. Rainwater stored in vaults under parking recharges the aquifer
