winery Adega Mayor in Portugal by Álvaro Siza

útlimasmag is a new internet project that will showcase only one building at a time. The flash animation seeks to create the illusion of a printed medium. As you flip through dozens of pages of high-quality photographs by Fernando Guerry accompanied by Siza's sketches and the complete project documentation, the sound of rustling paper accompanies you. The first issue of útlimasmag presents the Adega Mayor vineyard in Campo Maior, Portugal, designed by Álvaro Siza.



To the meticulously crafted photographs of the incredibly beautiful building, we add the author's commentary from the end of this January: “It is not easy to find an opportunity to construct something in the interior of a beautiful and intact landscape. It is also an enormous responsibility. The Nabeiro Group's new winery in Campo Maior is close to, but detached from its industrial complex. Visiting the site, I discovered two fundamentally orienting elements for the project and the building site: a road uniting the industrial complex; a leveled area of compacted clay, which up until now had been used as a rubbish tip, a hole excavated for the purpose. Thus, there is a slight leveling in a vast cultivated area of gentle rolling hills. The integrity of the natural landscape is reinforced and ordered by the existence of agricultural activity (the Nabeiro Group's cork-tree plantation and vineyard). These were the determining elements, associated with knowledge of the region's architecture. The 40x120m rectangle of the winery is situated over the existing cavity and lifts upwards in nearly blind 9m walls. Access for goods and visitors is located at the south-western end of the construction. The corresponding volume rises an additional floor, providing access to the panoramic terrace. At the opposite end is the production delivery ramp. In the parallel space between the two ends extend the complex production track and the shade of the storage facility.“ Link>