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Minimal in footprint and grounded by domestically sourced, sustainable supplies, Stoney Rise Cellar Door is a discrete construction centred on the customer expertise — a easy area to dwell in, converse, and soak up the vistas of northern Tasmania’s Tamar Valley.
Designed in collaboration with the house owners, Stoney Rise is a thought of area, each in scale and kind, which displays the vineyard’s values and modest wine-making course of.
For the house owners, the area wanted to accommodate bigger teams but nonetheless really feel intimate to a lone customer on a gradual winter’s day. This narrative is mirrored in Stoney Rise’s unimposing exterior and smooth palette, which blends into the quick panorama as an alternative of dominating it.
Perched on a slight rise, the cellar door options easy architectural gestures, plinths, sharp rooflines, and blade partitions, which progressively unfold as guests method the constructing.
The shape, wrapped round an exterior courtyard, acts as a barrier from the area’s notoriously sturdy winds. The constructing’s orientation is taken into account each for climatic functions and to permit friends to take pleasure in sweeping views of the vineyards, the valley, and Kanamaluka (River Tamar) past.
Inside, the supplies have been chosen for his or her sturdiness and sustainability, which is able to climate over time and assist settle the shape into the panorama.
The noticed gum veneer, additionally used within the exterior cladding, warmly displays the area’s pure mild and frames the cellar door’s brickwork — the vast majority of which have been sourced from the close by Longford plant, the one carbon-neutral brick manufacturing facility in Australia. The brick’s thermal mass, used within the partitions and flooring, permits the constructing to naturally keep a constant temperature all year long.
The addition of the burgundy aluminium island, overtly positioned close to the centre of the tasting space, contrasts the feel of the area’s predominant supplies and encourages lengthy conversations slightly than fleeting interactions..
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