Architecture: BORD Architectural Studio
Project: Sauska Tokaj Winery
Photo: Hufton + Crow
Geo: Rátka, Padi-hegy, HU
I was swept away by a fantastic stream of diverse activities: from project fun in the studio and hosting tours of Moscow for old friends from distant lands, to getting engrossed in Google’s new consistent AI model codenamed Nano Banana 🍌. Within three days, it climbed to the top of the popular generative ranking. In short — impressive: with almost mindless prompting in Russian, it makes both cosmetic and global adjustments to images very accurately.
Let’s return to the world of real and unusual NON-generative architecture — to eastern Hungary, in a place called Padi-hegy, located in a UNESCO protected area (the Tokaj wine region). Here, architects from the BORD studio have created the Sauska Tokaj Winery complex, which resonates deeply with our native Zaryadye (I feel a surge of pride 😤): the same white biomorphic structures that go underground, the same floating cylindrical forms, light wells, and delicate yet rich park landscaping that stitches architecture and landscape together.
The main functional solution is to hide most of the volume in the slope. The production workshops, fermentation, and cellars operate like an underground city, while only a set of concise white volumes remains on the surface. Visual noise is minimal: vineyards continue the line of slopes, and the roof-landscape acts as a natural temperature buffer: cooler in summer, warmer in winter. This is important for a winery in terms of technological processes.
The plan is arranged so that the logistics of winemaking do not intersect with the tourist route. Visitors move from top to bottom — from terraces and tasting rooms to portal windows into production spaces. Wine flows in the opposite direction: raw materials come from above, while fermentation and aging occur below.
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Project: Sauska Tokaj Winery
Photo: Hufton + Crow
Geo: Rátka, Padi-hegy, HU
I was swept away by a fantastic stream of diverse activities: from project fun in the studio and hosting tours of Moscow for old friends from distant lands, to getting engrossed in Google’s new consistent AI model codenamed Nano Banana 🍌. Within three days, it climbed to the top of the popular generative ranking. In short — impressive: with almost mindless prompting in Russian, it makes both cosmetic and global adjustments to images very accurately.
Let’s return to the world of real and unusual NON-generative architecture — to eastern Hungary, in a place called Padi-hegy, located in a UNESCO protected area (the Tokaj wine region). Here, architects from the BORD studio have created the Sauska Tokaj Winery complex, which resonates deeply with our native Zaryadye (I feel a surge of pride 😤): the same white biomorphic structures that go underground, the same floating cylindrical forms, light wells, and delicate yet rich park landscaping that stitches architecture and landscape together.
The main functional solution is to hide most of the volume in the slope. The production workshops, fermentation, and cellars operate like an underground city, while only a set of concise white volumes remains on the surface. Visual noise is minimal: vineyards continue the line of slopes, and the roof-landscape acts as a natural temperature buffer: cooler in summer, warmer in winter. This is important for a winery in terms of technological processes.
The plan is arranged so that the logistics of winemaking do not intersect with the tourist route. Visitors move from top to bottom — from terraces and tasting rooms to portal windows into production spaces. Wine flows in the opposite direction: raw materials come from above, while fermentation and aging occur below.
@gorkjournal
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