The Pizzolato Winery was founded in 1985, using the experience of five generations, who had decided to live in harmony with the environment and to produce organic wine.
According to Settimo Pizzolato, ORGANIC is not a product, but a life style, a constant commitment towards the environment, a choice based on a personal growth path, where respect is the foundation of the society. That’s why all the Pizzolato Wines are rigorously organic.
The winery has a long 35-year story notable for its constant increase in production. The winery is situated in a well constructed, well organised and cultivated location that forms a good quality landscape designed with the articulation of a regular disposition of grape vines and clay paths. The landscape has within itself and connected both textural and interwoven features. The material composition and the colouring create almost a unicum. The presence of the Villa, residence of the owner, provides an ulterior element in the composition of the landscapes’s elements.
The offices area is planned to be the representative image of the company and it has a direct connection to the open space, since on the ground floor there is a reception, a shop and a laboratory area.
A suspended boardwalk is the connection for the different architectural levels and for all the productive areas, giving, not only visually, the idea of the continuity of the wine making phases, from the vineyards till to the glass.
The building has a external cladding- filter, like a sort of “skin”. It is made by planks, vertically set. Their future oxidation will be useful to level out the building to the landscape, like the traditional rural farm houses of the Treviso country.
The winery has several openings to the outward area: some grass surfaces are the transit space between the parking and the building, while a little boards square gives continuity with the inner rooms.
The external cobbled space is used for events and other Company activities.
MATERIALS
The used wood is beechwood. The wood, Pefc certified, comes exclusively from the Cansiglio monitored Forest, where it is accurately selected thanks to an agreement with Veneto Agricoltura. It is a local product, because this forest is only 25 km far form the Itlas Productive dept. Moreover the Cansiglio beechwood is so solid and resistant that it was used also by the Serenissima Republic for its ships.
It is a complex and valued project that planned a building which is very contemporary and linear and which reflects the present and the future of the Winery. It’s a company that adapt itself to the surrounding territory, in a continuous dialogue between knowledge, respect and wellness, the principles of the organic lifestyle.
Time | 2013/16
Location | Villorba, Tv
Client | La Cantina Pizzolato
Project design | MADE associati _ Treviso
arch. Michela De Poli
arch. Adriano Marangon
Coll | arch. Francesco Faggian
Chartered Surveyor | ing. Andrea Rigato
Mechanical | p.i. Alessandro Sartori
Electrical | p.i. Luciano Michielin
Agro | Antonio Rottin
Plumbing | iDeVa IgegneriaVideo (di Marco Pavan):