Wine Museum Switzerland, Lavaux Architecture, Swiss World Heritage Site Design
Wine Museum in Lavaux : Lake Geneva Building
Lake Geneva Development, Switzerland – design by Mauro Turin Architectes
post updated 1 July 2019
Wine Museum Lavaux
Architect: Mauro Turin Architectes
Creating new architecture in a UNESCO World heritage site
Location: Lavaux, Lake Geneva, western Switzerland
On the shores of Lake Geneva, Lavaux is a unique place declared UNESCO World heritage site in 2007. How to generate a large-scale cultural attraction non-existent today?
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A wine museum that shows and tells the whole heritage richness of the wine-growing area since the Middle Ages seams relevant, but not sufficient to attract people from around the world.
A wine museum suspended on a rock, avoiding the sublime terraced vineyards, which becomes integrated to the landscape and offers a walk in the air allowing an unforgettable experience of Lavaux, Lake Geneva and the Alps could be the answer.
The Museum wants to be a small iconic object in a great iconic landscape; without being in competition but rather feeding each other.
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The integration of the Museum is contextual and regional without falling into a banal mimesis or a fearful disappearance; it is in the order of the experienced observer, of the deep sensibility and of the advanced intellectual exercise. It is in the order of the nature of things.
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Wine Museum in Lavaux – Building Information
Site: Lavaux (World Heritage Site). Switzerland
Year: 2012
Architecte: MAURO TURIN ARCHITECTES
Gross floor area: 1,000 sqm
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Wine Museum Building in Lavaux Switzerland images / information from Mauro Turin Architectes, 20 Nov 2012
Location: Lavaux, Switzerland
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