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Bearth & Deplazes Architects designed a building for a winery that was built using a robotic production method that a team developd for this purpose. The technology helps to lay 20,000 bricks at exact measurments for both practical and design purposes. From a practical standpoint, the building allows for a very specific amount of natural light and airflow permeation, considering that a large room in the building is used for fermenation, but that there is also a terrace at the top of the building for wine tastings and social events. The architects are also able to utilize this design precision for their artistic senses as well. They program the bricks to be rotated in a way that looks like grapes. The vertical concrete structural pillars look like a basket, so the artists say that the side of the building is intended to replicate a basket of grapes.
I selected this work because I like how the building combines art and practicality: the winey could have built any box-shaped building for their fermentation room, but they chose something a lot more interesting and visually appealing.

A winery in Switerland; Bearth & Deplazes Architects and Gramazio & Kohler (2006)