Nature-positive Architecture: A Regenerative Design Approach of a Winery in the Quarry of the St. Pietersberg

Sustainability in its development is increasingly focusing on nature. However, this research shows that through positive development, benefits are not only gained in nature, but are actually viewed as a common good. From this emerged regenerative development and design, in which there is a judgement from a whole system perspective. Through the...

Domus Leo

Sited in the Liège city center, this contribution proposes an urban winery that blends terroir fragments across the Blue Banana, exploring protection regulations that can build upon the knowledge, tradition, and novel techniques of winemaking. <br/><br/>Closely related to the idea of protectionism, and dictated by various regulation policies,...

Selecting south European wine based on carbon footprint

The largest wine producers globally are located in Southern Europe and climate is a major factor in wine production. The European Union aims to complement the consumer's choice for wine with information about environmental sustainability. The carbon footprint is a worldwide-standardized indicator that both wine producers and consumers...

Redefining wine retail experience for the Chinese Wine Illiterates

Fastest growing wine market “Chinese wine market has been growing steadily between 2008-2012, by a constant growth rate of 137%” (Wang, 2018). The importation of wine is expected to grow from 2 million cases in 2007 to 50 million cases in 2017. The potential market is estimated at between 50 million and 250 million Chinese drinkers (Hays, 2015)....

The Living Landscape of Quebrada Jaime

A self-sufficient Industrial Building, that focuses on the production of 1. Adobe construction materials (mudbricks, rammed earth, la quincha panels, earth-bag technology) 2. Region specific wine (Amphorae clay fermented wine, specialised fruit wines, grappa etc...). Both crafts are synonymous with Chilean culture.<br/>The intervention initially...

Inter-Cultural Brand Design for French Wine in China Market

This project came into being in response to the growing appetite in China for grape wines. Alterego has an expertise business in food & drink, culture and marketing, and it is also eyeing the emerging Chinese market, therefore the mutual understanding between the Chinese and the grape wine needs to be addressed, and this will be accomplished in...

Towards understanding the DOQ Priorat terroirs: A multivariate GIS analysis

The notion of terroir covers the interaction between the natural, the cultural conditions and the grape vine itself relative to the character of the final wine product. It is about a dynamic chain whose factors get different weights in each wine region and this results in the typicality of the different terroir wine products. The Old World wine...