Chybik + Kristof stack wood balconies inside Czech Republic’s Home of Wine

Curved wood-panelled volumes designed to recall conventional Moravian wine cellars are stacked up on this Czech wine bar to create intimate tasting rooms.

Positioned in Znojmo, a walled city within the Czech Republic’s winemaking area of Moravia, Home of Wine is a wine bar and tasting rooms designed by Czech architects Chybik + Kristof.

The bar occupies two buildings – a transformed 19th-century brewery and its adjoining technical area, which was added to the construction within the 1970s. Each overlook a ninth-century chapel and neighbouring gothic church.

Within the 19th-century brewery, the architects restored and preserved the constructing, reinventing the classical rectangular edifice as an exhibition area and wine bar the place guests can study in regards to the historical past of Moravian wine tradition.

In the meantime within the former technical corridor, solely the outer construction was preserved. The inside was fully gutted to create a double-height, all-white inside area dominated by a big wood construction made up of stacked interconnecting platforms.

Produced from metal profiles and spruce timber studs, the rounded volumes are set at totally different ranges and related by staircases.

Each is clad internally with bent plywood and furnished with tables and chairs, offering elevated balconies for friends to pattern wine whereas looking throughout the area and thru the constructing’s home windows.

The architects mentioned they wished the construction’s inside areas to recall the dimensions and environment of the area’s conventional wine cellars, which had been made up of cave-like interconnected rooms.

“The spatial idea and form of the wood insertion relies on dividing an current quantity right into a set of smaller areas,” the studio informed Dezeen.

“These areas have the identical scale and irregularity because the historic wine caves dug into the rock within the area prior to now.”

The constructing’s asymmetrical home windows are distributed to mirror the division of the inside area into numerous rooms and to open the previous technical corridor as much as views throughout to the neighbouring church buildings, the city and the river valley.

In flip, the colors of the encompassing panorama are mirrored within the constructing’s chalky beige facade.

“The Home of Wine challenges conventional notions of restoration of historic buildings,” mentioned the studio’s co-founder, Ondřej Chybíokay.

“The presence of two distinct constructions, every with its personal historical past and authentic perform, impressed us to undertake likewise distinct approaches to renovation.”

“On the one hand, we adhered to a slightly orthodox restoration, based mostly on preservation; then again, we embrace a extra experimental – and weird – method which totally rethinks the preliminary construction,” he continued.

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“In doing so, we immersed ourselves within the city’s heritage and panorama, whereas establishing the Home of Wine as a component, a reconciliation and a continuation of its architectural historical past.”

With places of work in Prague, Brno and Bratislava, Chybik + Kristof was based in 2010 by Ondřej Chybíokay and Michal Krištof. The studio’s earlier tasks embrace a furnishings showroom within the Czech metropolis of Brno which is clad with 900 plastic chairs.

Pictures is by Alex Shoots Buildings.