Domaine Kurodasho Winery / TOFU Inc.
Textual content material description provided by the architects. Domaine is a French phrase meaning territory or compartment notably throughout the historic Burgundy space, world-renowned for its good wineries, and refers to producers who develop, harvest, ferment, and bottle the wine produced of their very personal vineyards. In distinction, in Japanese saké manufacturing, there has historically been a division of labor between “rice cultivation” and “rice brewing.” It’s said that that’s due to the advance of the class system all through the Edo interval throughout which Japanese society was divided into 4 principal groups: the samurai, the farmers and peasants, the artisans, and the retailers. Subsequently, to appreciate the purpose of constructing a product that actually exudes the “terroir” and “basic” of the Domaine, we inaugurated the event of rice brewing facilities in 2018, a enchancment that accorded us the means with which to utilize the rice grown on our private adjoining rice paddies to provide saké.
Improvement of an entire of eight buildings, along with these for agriculture, rice drying, rice milling, brewing, and refrigeration, along with a seminar developing, was carried out in three phases and completed in 2023. With the coalescence of cultivation and brewing, the agricultural panorama of the Domaine, full with a saké brewery, appeared in Kurodasho. The property runs alongside the road for 500 meters and has an elevation distinction of roughly 8 meters. On the north side of the positioning, 4 buildings, consisting of two brewery buildings, a fridge developing, and a seminar developing, are specified by a sq. configuration with an open courtyard throughout the coronary heart.
Initially, a plan was undertaken for an unlimited factory-type building with all the processes positioned beneath one large roof. However, a cautious re-evaluation of the operation that was investigated all through this preliminary part revealed that standard saké brewing facilities usually included an open sq. in entrance of the facility. These open squares provided a smart locale the place the numerous kinds of brewing processes may be carried out in an entire technique, along with the washing of rice by hand, fermentation, sterilization after heating, washing, and drying of huge saké brewing utensils, bottle storage along with leisure areas for the brewers.
At Domaine Kurodasho, the open sq. thought has been adopted to facilitate movement forwards and backwards between each of the brewery buildings by the sq. unimpeded, with the result {{that a}} spatial configuration exists culminating in an open and stylish architectural kind throughout which the inside and outdoor are built-in into one, a design and spatial configuration that radiates the idiosyncrasies of a brewery, not a producing unit. This plan of fashionable simplicity featured the adoption of a design throughout which the brewery facility was divided into two large buildings with the 50m x 12m open sq. situated throughout the coronary heart between the two buildings allowing for lots of the processes to be completed on the underside throughout the sq. itself. All eight of the buildings incorporate a steel-framed design with every pure picket and plywood utilized as quite a bit as potential for the skin partitions and ending, a attribute that moreover permits for the buildings to be maintained by the brewers themselves.
By prioritizing the Seminar House as a facility the place company can bodily experience the Domaine, an technique incorporating the topography of the land is established with the first floor set at 4 meters above the underside and the large open space of the developing working north to south. A panoramic view of the large rice space panorama is seen when going by way of north, whereas the brewers’ coming and going as they perform their duties throughout the sq. unfolds when attempting south. It’s a spot the place one can visually experience the Domaine of agriculture and brewery so envisioned by the Director.
Inside the rice milling area and the drying administration area, the rice grown on the Domaine is first dried, then the chaff and totally different particles are eradicated, and the bran is subsequently eradicated in a sharpening course of that sees the grains reworked into lustrous white rice. Since large machines for rice processing are put in throughout the coronary heart of the rice milling and drying administration buildings, architectural dimensions have naturally been determined by the need to cowl them architecturally. Every inside areas, thus, embody large open areas with ceiling heights of some 8 meters.
Equally, to supply ease of entry for transport automobiles to pull alongside beneath the eaves the place loading and offloading may be facilitated simply, the outside outlines of the buildings have been determined in accordance with these desires, The equivalent aesthetically engaging picket boarding and black-hued provides utilized for the brewing buildings have been adopted proper right here as correctly, bringing a approach of unity all by way of the facility.
