Rippling robot-carved stone facade defines winery by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has designed a curving facade carved out of sandstone by a robot for the Delas Frères Winery in France's Rhône Valley.

The winery and wine shop were built next to a historic Manor House, which is one of the many vineyards that cover the terraced hillsides above in Tain l'Hermitage that have been cultivated since the Roman era.

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect used standstone quarried down the river in Provence to create the unique facade. The winery is included in the New Stone Age exhibition at London's Building Centre, which demonstrates projects that use stone as a structural material in contemporary buildings.

"This winery is built to be touched," said the studio.

"The tender, relatively light sandstone is ideally adapted to massive stone construction, being workable and best in thick structural blocks."

Stone blocks, half a metre thick, form a curving main wall for the winery and wine shop that is eighty metres long and seven metres high.

Its shape means it ripples on both the exterior wall facing the garden and on the interior facing the winery.

Each block was carved individually by a robot, wasting the minimum amount of stone.

The offcuts chips were turned into gravel for the winery's garden.

A father and son team of stonemasons then mounted the stone blocks using traditional techniques.

As well as providing a striking and tactile feature wall for the Delas Frères Winery, the porous stone is thermally inert – creating perfect conditions for the wine inside.

The pale stone also deflects sunlight from skylights in the visitors gallery away from the hall where the wine tanks and barrels are located.

Ramps through the winery allow visitors to observe the winemaking process.

At one end the ramps lead up to a roof terrace with views of the vineyards on the hills, at the other it goes down to the cellar under the manor house.

This existing structure has been renovated by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect and turned into a guesthouse for visitors to the Delas Frères Winery.

A rough U shape is formed by the winery, guest house and wine shop, enclosing a landscaped garden.The guesthouse includes a restaurant, tasting rooms and bedrooms that overlook this garden.

A curved section of the  glazed shop facade bows inwards to make space for an existing chestnut tree.

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect was founded by Swedish architect Carl Fredrik Svenstedt in 2000.

The studio also created a striking stone wall for a winery in Provence, staggering one-tonne blocks to create a gradually perforated facade.

Photography is by DG.

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Project credits:

Architect: Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect
Client: Champagne Deutz, Delas Frères
Architecture team: Carl Fredrik Svenstedt, Boris Lefevre, Pauline Seguin, Thomas Dauphant, Marion Autuori, Benoit-Joseph Grange
Landscape: Christophe Ponceau and Melanie Drevet
Structural engineer: Becamel Mallard
Curved stone wall engineer: Atelier Graindorge and Stono
Thermal engineer: MAYA

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Steimle Architekten transforms traditional German barn into Kressbronn Library

Steimle Architekten has converted a former barn in the village of Kressbronn am Bodensee, Germany, into a library and community centre with glazed openings screened by angled vertical louvres.

The former agricultural building is prominently located in the centre of Kressbronn, close to the village's town hall and festival hall.

Steimle Archiekten preserved the old barn's character whilst converting it for its new public function.

The studio also built a new forecourt and outdoor terrace to connect it to the nearby buildings.

Originally the agricultural building featured a steeply pitched roof with overhanging eaves sheltering a threshing floor above a storage space and stables.

These two levels have been preserved for the community centre and library.

"By maintaining the existing urban structure, with no external addition and no change to the striking, deeply overhanging saddleback roof, the preservation-worthy historical building fabric was strengthened," said Steimle Archiekten.

Modern materials are used but designed to evoke the original construction.

Between the roof and the concrete base, the barn's traditional horizontal clapboard siding has been replaced with vertical wooden slats that are rotated in varying degrees.

The slender angled boards allow diffused daylight to enter the library and create a dynamic effect across the building's facades.

The ground floor's stone walls have been replaced with an insulated concrete base.

Deep reveals in the base evoke the solidity of the earlier structure.

Large, glazed openings inserted into the concrete surfaces allow more daylight to reach the interior.

A concrete core connects the multipurpose ground-floor lobby with a library on the first floor and an open gallery tucked in beneath the preserved timber trusses.

"The library on the first floor, with its media and magazine gallery and its reading stations, offers surprisingly open views though the entire building," the studio added.

"Here in particular, the old and the new enter into an exciting dialogue. The balance of past and present becomes the building's special quality, not only from the outside but especially from the inside."

Steimle Architekten, founded by Thomas and Christine Steimle, has also designed a horseshoe-shaped property clad in anodised aluminium panels and a concrete house with dramatically angled facades.

Photography is by Brigida González.

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Project credits:

Architect: Steimle Architekten
Client: Minicipality of Kressbronn
Insulating concrete: Liapor
Roof tiles: Dachziegelwerke Nelskamp
Fireproof doors: Joro Türen
Oak veneer: Schutz in Form
Stainless steel: Franz Schneider Brakel
Switches: GIRA
Lighting: Seeger
Built-in oak furniture: designed by Steimle Architekten and fabricated by Eisele Möbel + Innenausbau
Seating: Vitra
Lifts: Thyssenkrupp

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3D printers fabricate emergency valves for respirators to keep coronavirus patients breathing

Italian additive manufacturing start-up Isinnova has reverse engineered and 3D printed a crucial valve for an overrun hospital in Chiari, a small town in Lombardy which is among the areas worst affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

The valve is a key component of Venturi oxygen masks, which are connected to ventilators and used to help patients with respiratory diseases like coronavirus Covid-19 breathe.

Of the almost 3,000 people that have died of the coronavirus in Italy, at least 1,420 were in Lombardy, and hospitals in the area have shortages of beds and medical equipment.

The supplier of the Chiari hospital was unable to provide the crucial valve due to the unprecedented demand, leading a local journalist to reach out to the community of 3D printing companies in the area.

 

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Isinnova and its CEO Cristian Fracassi volunteered and contacted the valve's original manufacturer, Intersurgical.

However as they couldn't obtain the 3D models of the part, Fracassi reverse engineered its structure and was able to 3D print the first prototype within six hours using a filament extrusion system.

"The valve has very thin holes and tubes, smaller than 0.8m - it's not easy to print the pieces," Fracassi told the BBC.

"Plus you have to respect not [contaminating] the product – really it should be produced in a clinical way."

The first batch of valves was used to help 10 patients at the hospital and another local 3D printing company called Lonati helped to print 100 more based off of Fracassi's replicated design.

Although there were reports that the medical device manufacturer behind the valve threatened to sue the 3D printers for infringing the patent, Intersurgical managing director Charles Bellm told the Verge this was not true.

"We have categorically not threatened to sue anyone involved," he said in a statement.

Fracassi added that he is not looking to sell the part or to make the design publicly available.

"There were people whose lives were in danger and we acted," he wrote on Facebook. "We have no intention of profiting from this situation, we are not going to use the designs or product beyond being forced to act, we are not going to circulate the drawing."

Complimenti a Cristian Fracassi, @temporelli73 e tutte le persone che lo hanno aiutato nella impresa di stampare in 3d le valvole mancanti per i respiratori dell'Ospedale di Chiari a Brescia.
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In Asia, 3D printing technology has already been used to manufacture micro homes for quarantined coronavirus patients in Xianning, China, as well as to create protective goggles and face shields to protect hospital staff.

In the face of the pandemic, a slew of designers have turned their attention to protective and sanitising products, creating everything from graphene-infused face masks, to full-body weareable shields and a sterilising lamp.

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