Cross-section of an underground industrial or warehouse building with storage areas, workspaces, and parking, located in a natural, wooded area.

Okanagan Crush Pad Winery- west cellar

The Okanagan is one of the world’s most expensive regions for wine production, partly because the valley is surrounded by mountains for 500 km, making agricultural land highly coveted and calling for careful design.

Okanagan Crush Pad (OCP) currently produces 40,000 litres of wine in 10,000 sf—about four times the average production density. This has been achieved through vertical space strategies and the success of its Haywire organic wines.

We worked with the owners of OCP to plan a new linear cellar building of 8500sf to be situated west of the wine production building. The building adheres to a 10’ module, a practical size for insulated precast concrete panels. The east facade, visible on approach to the winery, will be a regular line of full height precast panels with openings expressing the program within. 

 

location: summerland, bc

size: 8,500 sf

status: in progress

designed by: f2a architecture ltd

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Modern building with colorful geometric mural, parking lot with two parked cars, and people walking outside on a wet surface.
A modern building with colorful circular murals on its exterior, surrounded by people, parked cars, and natural landscape with trees.
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