Design studio Destilat drew focus to the art of winemaking by applying a "reduced colour language" inside Clemens Strobl winery in northeast Austria.
Clemens Strobl is located in the Kirchberg am Wagram municipality of Lower Austria, a region recognised for producing a rich variety of wine cultures.
The winery, which is shortlisted in the large workspace category of this year's Dezeen Awards, is composed of two gabled barns that are connected by a ribbon of gridded glass.
Top image: The winery occupies two former barns. Above: The barns are connected by gridded glass.
One of the barns has been restored, and still boasts its original brick facade. The other had fallen into a state beyond repair and has been replaced by a contemporary white-painted structure. The greyscale spaces that design studio Destilat has created within the winery come in response to the brief of the owner, who wanted the interiors to have an understated design so that the craft of winemaking could be the focal point.
The interior of the winery has been completed in shades of grey
"The clients asked for 'as little design as possible' for their premises, and we reacted to this request with a very reduced colour language and design vocabulary as well as an equally puristic material selection," said the studio, which works between offices in Vienna and Linz.
"Grey in all of its nuances puts the winemaking process front and centre."
A tasting room slots beneath the vaulted roof...