Cork-insulated roofs help create a stable temperature for wine production inside this solar-powered winery in Majorca by Munarq Arquitectes, which also features a sandstone exterior and wicker sunshades.

Pau Munar and Rafel Munar of Mallorca-based Munarq Arquitectes were asked to design the 1,300-square-metre space for the Son Juliana wine company, which needed a facility that could produce 40,000 litres of wine each year.

The flat, clay terrain of the site extends towards the dramatic Tramuntana mountains, which form the spine of the Balearic island.
The linear building runs parallel to the mountain range, and its concrete structure is covered in pieces of sandy-toned marés stone.

"They were in a hurry, so because of this we built in prefab concrete structure, built in 15 days," the architects told Dezeen. "We used a prefab concrete structure, and local and natural materials like marés ? a local sandy stone ? in the exterior facades, and ceramic bricks for the interior finishing walls," they continued.
"What is unusual is that it is 100 per cent renewable energy powered and not connected to the net."

The linear arrangement of the facility also responds to the production requirements, with grapes entering at the eastern end of the building beneath the sun awning before being moved into a pressing room, an underground fermentation space and then a barrel room for maturing.

At the western end of the building, the wines are bottl...