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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

: Old grapevine root in form of a digital fabricated scultpure generates the single supporting column of the building and symbolize coevally the main building function: wine testing facility

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

: An architecture that adapts to a vineyard.

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

: The use as a wine pavilion within a vineyard.

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

: two years +

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

: It is the assumption of nature motives as supportive and essential elements of a building at the same time.

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

: We can offer similar implementations as wine pavilion to all interested winemakers.

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

: There is less and less building land and the existing one should be treated very gently.

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

: Winemakers everywhere

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

: Most wine pavilions are orthogonal in design and are already placed on the floor. The shape of our pavilion represents the abstraction of a grape leaf held in the air by a sole in the form of a vine root.

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

: Grape Wine House - that is the description of the design.

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

: imagination drawings physical model ArchiCAD 3dsMax

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

: it should be considered a free interpretation of a natural form.

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

: In the final phase my employees.

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

: The technology is very important The wine root is to be implemented in the form of 3d metal printing.

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

: Here only the fact mattered that most wine pavilions seem like foreign objects on the vineyard.

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

: Of course, statics also play an important role here

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

: To show an alternative for a wine pavilion

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

: It is another building that requires very little start-up space.