İzmir, Turkey
Nestled in the countryside of Seferihisar, Kemal Serkan Demir and Ece Türkel’s Rubrum Winery combines the region’s long-standing wine tradition with a contemporary design in constant dialogue with the surrounding environment where fluidity, light, and shadow play an important role within the structure.
Rubrum Winery project has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The design context occurs together with a field of rich soil conditions to grow vines and feed its habitat with a perfect climate.
In addition, the place exists where the green interacts with the sky, vastly gets exposed to the powerful Aegean sun, and gently welcomes the visitors as it does to the grapes.
Our conceptual approach progressed simultaneously with our desire to create an experience for visitors wishing to understand and appreciate the wine they consume at this location.
The Rubrum Winery also gives access to the acts of harvesting grapes, maturing, and bottling the wine. It also includes a shop, a tasting room, and a private dining area for the guests.
By creating a dynamic interplay of light, shadow, reflection, and repetition, the architecture becomes an expression of slipping through the valley.
The elegant and refined reflection of the landscape in which the vines grow is achieved by planning reflecting pools and making the mirroring effect complement our surroundings.
Project: Rubrum Winery
Architects: Office Istanbul Architects
Lead Architects: Kemal Serkan Demir and Ece Türkel
Design Team: Lara Uyal, Murat Kumbaracı, Can Sözeri, Şeval Özakça, Zülal Coşan, and Gizem Güleryüz
General Contractor: D.Homes Gödence
Client: Rubrum Winery
Photographers: Office Istanbul Architects
