The double landscape and architectural competition proposal for Yanqing Grape and Wine Park and Yanqing Greenhouse and Winery by LocalDesignStudio was organized ahead of the World Grape Conference to be held in 2014 in Yanqing County. The park was meant as a pilot project for the territory, only recently reconverted to cultivations of grapes, showing the latest technical achievements in the field of cultivation and production of wine and grape growing. Furthermore, the project was to represent the ambition of Yanqing County to become an important wine district internationally, not only oriented to business but related to a specific life-style. More images and architects’ description after the break.
What we refer to when we talk about “wine district”? The vision we have in mind is a territory generally oriented to the cultivation of grapes, which could, starting from this background, offer a wide range of complementary facilities and grape and wine related lifestyles, without being at the same time monopolized by the mere aspect of commercial wine production. A vibrant wine district should be in fact the expression of a network of cultural and productive aspects that the territory can offer at different levels. “Shan Shui Grape Garden” proposal is intending the new garden’s layout as a territorial primer of what the County can offer not only in terms of agriculture, but as a synergic tool where different ecologies live together.
