One

We, architects, often work through intuition and memory, but always with reflection or a rational knowledge.

Reflection has its own sensitivity. Logic in art may be as essential as critical imagination and intuition in science.

Wine speaks of civilization, our background, who we are and where we are, but it also moves and evokes us.

From the poetry of forms, with compositions of materials and textures, and even with structural harmony, the winery could easily have emerged from the place.

In this project, however, the answer comes from reflection: Rational knowledge takes us to the world of dreams.

The wine demands a building linked to the earth, but it has a classical education, refining tastes and aspirations.

Its longs for rest and calm, the spatial relations of the winemaking process, the sustainability of the resources, suggest a solid mass in the middle of  the countryside, devoid of ornaments like the Villa de Palladio.

The style of these villages, based on home economy, was opposed to the humanist tradition, but still inspired by Ancient Rome, not the one with Hellenic roots, but the one being built with simple structures, made by constructors and taboo for decorators. The unadorned style of the Ancient World.

The monastery embraces us, the river instructs us, Backus pretends to enjoy the view of the scenery rather than to take advantage of its crop.

The textures and colours speak of the Cistercian Order. The cloister, however, belongs to Rome

Two

Vitrubio said that all buildings can have two kinds of beauty, one positive and the other arbitrary. Positive beauty is able to please by itself and arbitrary beauty depends on the different circumstances around it. Positive beauty consists mainly of three things: First of all, the relative similarity the different parts have, which is called harmony.

The quality of the materials and how well all the works are carried out are also important. The second kind of beauty, the one which only pleases under certain determined circumstances, can take on two different forms: One is called sound judgement and the other regularity. Sound judgement implies making reasonable use of all beautiful things by placing them in their appropriate place. Regularity depends on the observance of the different regulations set for the proportions.

Three

In this work by Emina there are two phases that can clearly be distinguished: the project and the execution.

If poetry has been described as a hesitation between sound and sense, we would understand that, in the first phase, we would have the sound, to ask for the impossible, something vocational for humans.

After that, the sense will appear, the confrontation with reality, the works, the final phase of the project.

Pleasure cannot only be found in the search for the impossible but also when finding sense, reality, the execution.

Once the construction process is over, the material will assume its own truth. The things that worry us, then disappear...  The building stands in utter loneliness, has acquired its definite condition and will remain lonely for ever.