In 2017, the owners of the Mas Blanch i Jové winery decided to buy an old house close to the winery, with the aim of reforming it to accommodate the growing number of visitors and also to be used by the family.
RSA proposed to relate the house to the artistic experience of the winery itself, represented by the sculpture garden: every year, a renowned artist is invited to build a sculpture in the vineyards. From now on, each artist will be asked to make a small intervention in the house, creating a joint experience between the different facilities of the winery.
The project proposes a clear division of the house by means of a cross established in plan and section, which opens four huge windows in each one of the facades, putting it in close contact with the picturesque landscape. These spaces are cladded with cor-ten steel plates, an identifying material of the winery itself, omnipresent in the sculptures that Josep Guinovart, a renowned artist, made throughout his life for the winery. The steel, cold and not a domestic material, represents the exhibition spaces, housed in this cross. Around it, the domestic spaces are deployed, with a completely opposite materiality.
The crucial point of the house is the center of the cross, solved by a small bridge that flies over the ground floor and from which the four large windows open with no frames: two small benches to admire the landscape finish off the axes of the bedrooms; two double height voids star in the remaining sides.