The project by Studio Bricolo Falsarella which involved the construction, recovery and expansion of the Gorgo winery on the moraine hills of Custoza is called “The orchard of the Gorgo winery” in Custoza (Verona). The work won the first edition of the “The medal of wine architecture” competition, conceived by the Order of Architects of Treviso, in agreement with the Municipality of Valdobbiadene (Treviso), and aimed at identifying the best project for the valorisation of DOCG, DOC, IGT territories on a national level.
The national competition, dedicated to projects for the transformation, care and enhancement of the landscape and places dedicated to wine, was born with the aim of developing a collective reflection on the relationship between wine places and the infrastructures that contribute to organizing and defining sustainable its landscapes, awarded the highest recognition to Studio Bricolo Falsarella which, with the same project dedicated to the Gorgo di Custoza winery, has already won other prestigious awards: winner of the IN_ARCHITETTURA 2023 Award dedicated to the best interventions carried out in the Triveneto area; special mention at the 2022 Italian Architect Award of the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators; winner of the ARCHITETTIVERONA 2021 Award for the best work created in the province of Verona.
“Il brolo della Cantina Gorgo” was awarded the first prize for the ability, expressed by the studio of Veronese architects, “to combine materiality and sense of composition, and because it responds to the objectives of the prize with an intervention of transformation, care and valorisation of the landscape within a process of reuse and expansion of the existing. An example of elegance and measured reuse of space.”
“The architecture of wine represents an important opportunity for the valorisation of our territories, – comment the architects Francesca Falsarella and Filippo Bricolo. – It’s a topic that worries us a lot. Our approach is not to create iconic architecture of great impact but to seek a new synergy with the beautiful landscapes where we are called to operate, working on materials, atmospheres and the creation of enveloping and revealing spaces”.
The center of the intervention is the contemporary reinterpretation of the ancient model of the Brolo, a Hortus conclusus garden which was located at the back of the Venetian villas in the area and was responsible for mediating the relationship between the agricultural company and the cultivated countryside.
The heart of the project is not a fullness, as we tend to do in contemporary wine architecture, but an empty space that summons the landscape, determining a place of slowing down, of peace and meditation, where the human being is invited to meet while tasting the company’s wines immersed in the landscape of the morainic hills.
The Gorgo winery represents an excellence of Veronese wine. The company currently extends for 53 hectares on the morainic hills of Lake Garda around the town of Custoza, producing wines with its own certified organic grapes.
