Wine-making complexes of the Republic of Moldova: reconfigured vision and essential changes to their architecture

Abstract

In the second half of the XX century, thanks to a plethora of famous architects, new meanings related to the perception of the wine-making complex are imposed and the concept of wine-making architecture evolves. The major interest given to the image of contemporary wineries makes it opportune to take a new approach to their architecture, classifying them as spaces and volumetric forms that are rational and at the same time expressive, suitable for functional and technical requirements, as well as for aesthetic and semantic ones. As a consequence of the changes taking place in the global wine-making industry, there is a structural revision of the overall image of domestic wine-making complexes. Having moved beyond the period of predominance of purely utilitarian, industrial forms, architecture is now entering a phase in which the expressive aspect of buildings comes to the fore. In the first decade of the XXI century, several projects based on the attractiveness of wine-making complexes have attracted attention, demonstrating a particular ability to convey ideas and concepts that are much more complex than their mere representation as a result of the subordination of a utilitarian architecture. By researching these projects, we can notice various solutions of contemporary wine cellar architecture, important contributions to the conceptualization of their development at the present stage.