Close to the historic city center of Beaune, known for its emblematic centuries-old cellars, we find the landscape building “Cité des Climats et des Vins de Bourgogne.” The project establishes a symbolic link between the historic town of Beaune, the wine route, and the surrounding hillsides, while also promoting the recent inscription of the “Climats” of Burgundy winegrowing region on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
The Cité des Climats et des Vins de Bourgogne is a « landscape building » anchored in its park. With the implantation of 400 trees in the project’s park and more than 1000 vines on the rooftop, the project constitutes a new “Climat” in Beaune, combining vine plots with expertise.
The innovative construction that rises from the park is inspired by the tendril of the vine, this thin stem that wraps itself gently and firmly around the trellis wire. The tendril also evokes the idea of the perpetual movement happening at vineyards: changing seasons and the vines’ growth cycle, repeating year after year without ever being the same.
The exterior ramp, or the tendril, gives visitors fabulous sweeping views of Burgundy by bringing the visitors to the heights of our wine environment. While the interior, consisting of reception, bookstore, boutique, offices, lecture rooms, tasting rooms, exhibition spaces and the panoramic restaurant and terrace, aims to share knowledge on wine.
The “Cité des Climats et des Vins de Bourgogne” is a model of eco-sustainable commitment, with its BiodiverCity label. It promotes nobles and bio-sourced materials such as burgundy stone, wood and poured-in-place concrete with site materials. The facades are composed of wooden structures filled with hemp concrete.
This project, design by EMMANUELLE ANDREANI ARCHITECTES, is conceived as an authentic place imbued with discovery, exchange, tradition, and conviviality. We believe that this work would be discovered in the same manner as one tastes wine: with desire, appetite, and modesty.
