Greek structure observe Ok-studio has accomplished a customer area for drinks firm Metaxa, carving an experiential route out of the stepped stone terraces of a century-year-old winery.
Situated on the island of Samos the challenge, known as Liknon, nestles into a big terraced winery that’s house to one in every of Metaxa’s key components, the Muscat grape.
As an alternative of inserting a constructing on the positioning, Ok-studio seemed to inform the story of Metaxa’s manufacturing via the panorama itself, inserting a sequence of show and tasting rooms linked by stone steps and pathways.
“We realised that Metaxa did not want something greater than what they already had – they’ve the winery and that mainly it, they simply must be sure that this winery is telling their story and invite individuals to expertise it,” founder Dimitris Karampatakis instructed Dezeen.
“So the temporary grew to become making a stroll via the winery and embedding in it methods to discover it additional, moderately than the extra passive, one-way interplay that one may need with a museum,” he added.
Liknon is organised loosely round a three-part journey, which begins on the prime of the positioning and works its means down through slim stone stairways.
The primary area guests come throughout focuses on “topos”, place, coming into an underground area with a soil ground the place a four-metre-high glass wall creates a cross-section via the bottom to disclose the foundation system of the vines.
The second area is devoted to “kronos”, time, the place guests have the chance to pattern drinks and perceive how the ageing of spirits impacts their style.
This experiential route ends within the Metaxa Bar, the place massive openings body the panorama and an exterior terrace sheltered by a steel-wire cover will regularly grow to be overgrown with vines.
“We wished to hook up with the heritage, the aesthetics and materiality, the rhythm of the positioning,” defined Karampatakis.
“In fact, all of those locations will be accessed by completely different individuals at completely different occasions for various causes, so it’s a versatile narrative,” he added.
Finishes all through prioritise the pure drystone partitions of the stepped terraces, with new additions in steel and wooden being stored easy and uncooked.
“We did not need to enable something to be distracting you from the panorama itself, so geometry, scale, and materiality all attempt to poetically concentrate on the emotional expertise of being on an historical winery,” stated Karampatakis.
Ok-studio was co-founded by Konstantinos and Dimitris Karampatakis and is predicated in Athens.
Different tasks accomplished by the studio embody a stone vacation house in Mykonos overlooking the Aegean sea, and a lodge in Athens completed with native art work and furnishings.
Liknon has lately been longlisted within the cultural challenge class of Dezeen Awards 2023.
The images is by Claus Brechenmacher and Reiner Baumann.
