The project is the outcome of a private commission of Guerrieri Rizzardi – a family-owned estate producer of wine and olive oil. The client asked for an extension of their current winery, along with a museum, a small auditorium, a point of sale, and a restaurant. The site is close to Lake Garda, in a semi-urban area surrounded by olive groves and vineyards. A steep slope opposite the views of the lake characterizes the topography of the place. Rather than building an object, the design proposes the construction of a set of small buildings organized around an open space, a sort of small village or borgo, enclosed within a perimeter wall. The winery and bottling area – connected to the existing facility – form a podium that regularizes the steep slope of the site. The pavilions containing the rest of the program are then set on this artificial podium. From the outside, the project appears as a simple perimeter wall perfectly integrated into the semi-urban landscape surrounding it. Inside, however, it harbors a private, intimate world – a garden that merges vegetation, water, and pavilions to create a new scenography for the everyday life of the winery...[+]