Portugal Vineyards Retail Space by Ricardo Porto Ferreira is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
GoldInterior· 2020
Portugal Vineyards Retail Space
Client: Porto Architects
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Portugal Vineyards Retail Space
The Portugal Vineyards concept store is the first physical store for the online wine specialist company. Located adjacent to the company’s headquarters, facing the street and occupying 90m2, the store consists of an open-plan devoid of partitions. The interior is a blindingly white and minimal space with circular circulation - a white canvas for the Portuguese wine to shine and be displayed. The shelves are carved out of the walls in reference to the wine terraces on a 360 degrees immersive retail experience with no counter.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Portugal Vineyards Retail Space is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Portugal Vineyards Retail Space is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Portugal Vineyards Retail Space creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The traditional references to dark cellars and wood materials had to be completely disregarded. Out of the brief we immediately interpreter the need for light and an open plan. Also, while designing a retail space, where emotions tend to be rationalized and as a designer, we work to find solutions beyond the existing condition.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The design the canvas for the Portuguese wine to shine and be displayed. The white color and a subtle intervention with circular circulation. The curved shelves carved out of the walls in reference to the wine terraces on a 360 degrees immersive retail experience with no counter.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Hopefully inspire new shapes and forms to designers and create the will to visit it.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A white canvas for the Portuguese wine to shine and be displayed. The interior is a blindingly white and minimal space with circular circulation. The shelves are carved out of the walls in reference to the wine terraces on a 360 degrees immersive retail experience with no counter. A retail space where staff are on the client side, suggesting, promoting and serving.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Knauf, drywall system; Marilina, epoxy floor; Cin, paint; Ezpeleta, chairs; Lumit, lighting; Charme Versatil, fit-out.
- Tags
- Portugal Vineyards, terraces, curved walls, white space, minimal interiors
- Production Technology
- The curving walls are made of a gypsum board supported by a metal frame and the shelves are engineered wood supported in the same structure. The color is an element of the wine tasting process. After taking the decision to have a bright space we found that the RAL 9003 is the recommended color to be used as a background when observing the aging wine in the wine tasting events. It made sense to us to apply it to our concept as retail is all about the exhibition.
- Design Challenge
- The creative challenge of this project was to find that a circle plan could be the best answer for a squared existing space. Facing a squared plan, a cornered entrance and a secondary access we found our answer in the use of geometry. The displays are carved out of the walls in reference to the vineyard terraces in a circular shape that fills the customer field of view sensitively with indirect lighting and the sharp contrast between the product and the space.
- Research
- The initial challenges behind the space were to find the answers through geometry, to allow enough footfall to have the 600 references the clients intended to display, the design should allow the space to be used as a venue for suppliers presentations and to have an area for wine tasting. These requirements were answered through the definition of a radious that allowed the inner circle to gather about 50 people; three levels of terraces where all the bottles rest and a loop circulation that would be broken by the access points.
- Inspiration
- The traditional references to dark cellars and wood materials had to be completely disregarded. Out of this brief we immediately interpreter the need for light and an open plan. Also, while designing a retail space, where emotions tend to be rationalised and as a designer, we work to find solutions beyond the existing condition.
- Project Duration
- The project duration was from April to September 2019.
- Operation Flow
- Space with very linear, clear and open circulation where the staff is placed in center stage. From the moment clients enter the space they are accompanied side-by-side, with no counters, shelves or walls dividing or separating them from the staff members.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Porto Architects, 2019
- Team Members
- Ricardo Porto Ferreira
- Image Credits
- #1: Photographer Ivo Tavares Studio
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