Foreword

The Monte d’Oiro Wine Hotel competition is part of Bee Breeders’ Portugal design series. This particular design challenge was the second organized in collaboration with Quinta Do Monte D’Oiro, a family vineyard located in the Lisbon region.

Quinta do Monte d'Oiro (‘Hill of Gold’) is a 42-hectare property with a history of wine-production dating to the 17th century. The current brand, a brainchild of José Bento dos Santos, has produced 100% organic Syrahs, Viogniers, and Petit Verdots, imported from France, since the 1990s, and more recently it has expanded with original labels. The Quinta do Monte d’Oiro site – with a privileged terroir, resting on clay-limestone soils and receiving Atlantic winds – is known to have conditions ideal for producing balanced, fresh wines. Quinta do Monte d’Oiro labels have been consistently awarded prizes and are sold in regional and international markets.

For the Monte d’Oiro Wine Hotel competition, participants were tasked with proposing designs for an extension to the current Quinta do Monte d’Oiro vineyard complex – a hotel that could accommodate visitors of the famous vineyard. The hotel should make full use of the vineyard’s beautiful views and landscape, and incorporate a range of supporting facilities to guarantee visitors have an unforgettable stay.

Bee Breeders worked with a regional and international jury of architects: Tiago Krusse, a professional journalist and manager of the K Innovative Diffuser – a digital media group that holds publications including Design Magazine; Sean Shen, Xuanru Chen and Yu-Ying Tsai, lead architects at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier which has completed projects such as the Woodhouse Hotel; Catarina Ribeiro and Vitório Leite, founders of merooficina, a Porto-based office; Lera Samovich, an architect at Fala Atelier in Porto; and Wayne Turett, founder and principal of The Turett Collaborative, a New York City-based architecture and interior design firm.

The jury evaluated designs for their capacity to harmonize new building volumes with the existing context, and their potential to become iconic landmarks that remain sensitive to the natural surroundings.

Bee Breeders thanks all of the participants for their time and excellent contributions to this design challenge.

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Monte d'Oiro 
Wine Hotel
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Monte d'Oiro 
Wine Hotel

1st Prize Winner

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AGORA

Architectural contests provide the opportunity to design and propose novel ideas; they place no restrictions on creativity and allow for complete freedom of expression in terms of design. They also present the architect with a special kind of client: an absent one. What better challenge for an architect?

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Authors Alexandru Ioan Patrichi, Claudia Galvan Zuluága, Iñaki Omar Millán
Country Belgium

2nd Prize Winner

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Horizontal Landmark

We believe there are many ways to answer our needs, taking into consideration that each individual has a different background and mindset. Architecture competitions provide democratic answers to the same questions, while also often defining and anticipating previously unseen needs.

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Country Italy

3rd Prize Winner +
BB GREEN AWARD

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LINES

It is always an opportunity to design something innovative within a certain frame. The demand sets a context for place and action, and it’s up to the architects to find solutions within that gap. The challenging aspect pushes the design forward and drives the project to find strategies that take advantage of the existing conditions and enhance the possibilities of the requested programme – like this competition that presented this great possibility of doing something exciting within an existing space. It is a wonderful opportunity that can generate an outstanding result. The type of activity that is required and the site itself can be both combined to create a truly remarkable experience. This possibility was a clear motivation to enter this architecture competition.

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BB STUDENT AWARD

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enxame na encosta

Competitions are great for experiences. You always learn from them.
It's a great way to get exposed to new topics and materials, and thereby expand your horizons.

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Client Favorite

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Chapels Tale

Apart from obvious reasons, I become interested in a particular topic or brief. In the case of the Monte D’oiro Hotel, it was a challenge to continue the previous studies of wine architecture in the low-density suburban environment. Whenever I see an objective that interests me, I start thinking. If I can’t stop thinking, I participate.

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Authors Anton Burdein, Diana Burdein
Country Germany

Honorable Mentions

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Motel Revisited

Company AUD.A
Country Germany
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Inhabiting the vineyard

Authors Alberto Ibáñez Puértolas, Mario Vera Sáez , Daniel de Buen Velicias, David de Buen Velicias
Country Spain
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The Link

Author Manh Thang Vu
Country France
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la sommellerie

Author Annie Tong
Country New Zealand
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Hotel Terroir

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TRAMAS d' OIRO

Authors Diogo Lopes, Sara Pertile, Simone Antonelli, Susan Isawi
Country Portugal

Shortlisted projects

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la sommellerie

Annie Tong

New Zealand

Natan Cherniakov

Matan Gal

Zohar Isenberg

Dana Lieber

Israel

THE MUSICAL CLOAK

Ioannis Katsiavos

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY of ATHENS - SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Greece

três pátios - Quinta do Monte d'Oiro Winehotel

Mena Ghaly

KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

M d ' O

Monica Sache

Dana Rosca

Raluca Stratulat

Ana Gogancea

TAG architecture

Romania

Room with a view

Jeroen Wouters

Roel Bekkers

Tijn Eerden

JMW architecten

Netherlands

Vista da Panorama

Kazuya Katagiri

Japan

Quinta de monte d'oiro - Wine HOTEL

Clément Meynard

Sergey Guichard kaluzhskikh

Thomas Labarthe

Jung hwan Kim

France

TRAMAS d' OIRO

Diogo Lopes

Sara Pertile

Simone Antonelli

Susan Isawi

Portugal

AGORA

Alexandru Ioan Patrichi

Claudia Galvan Zuluága

Iñaki Omar Millán

Alexandru Patrichi Architects

Belgium

Monte d'Oiro Wine Hotel

Wei Cai

Bruce Hu

China

Linha de Sombra

Renato Righi

Pedro Escoriza torralbo

Italy

Hotel Santa Isabel

Vukašin Deronjić

Zoran Uljarević

Saša Čvoro

Malina Čvoro

University of Banja Luka

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Bosnia and Herzegovina

LINES

Leonardo Ronchi

Barbara Stallone

Francisco Silva

Italy

Tour do vinho

Ricardo Martinez

Yaffa Sefchovich

Xavier Plata

Martha Serra

Mexico

No reino dos sentidos

Stefan Ritzen

Ina Dogga

Netherlands

A Walk in the Vineyards

Pau Millet

Marta Miralpeix

Xisco Llabrés

Xavier Ramoneda

Double Twist

Spain

Grapevine Path

Alexis Martínez de san vicente cals

Barcelona

Spain

Between lines

Ruben Guerreiro

Luisa Vincenzo

Katarzyna Chodzba

Leandro Muñoz

Studioarte

Portugal

Hotel Terroir

Matthew Baird

Ines Gulbenkian

Will James

Robert Estrin

United States

MONTE D’OIRO - INTO THE WINE

Melchior Dechancé

Dimitri Kasparian

Switzerland

Inhabiting the vineyard

Alberto Ibáñez Puértolas

Mario Vera Sáez

Daniel de Buen Velicias

David de Buen Velicias

Spain

Wine Hotel Quinta do Monte d'Oiro

Ni Komang Dira Maria Parahita

Erfurt University of Applied Sciences

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

VISUS

Kristina Lehmann

Germany

HORIZON

Samuele Barichello

Mauro Oliveti

Simone Giacchetto

Italy

Garden Terrace Village

Massimo Dei

Italy

MONTE D'OIRO WINE HOTEL

Olga Gotman

Elina Kurmaeva

Valeriy Fokshuk

Kira Chertanova

MARKS COMPANY GROUP

Russian Federation

Motel Revisited

Jorik Bais

Alexandra Heijink

AUD.A

Germany

Monte d'Oiro - golden plateau

Lídia Cruz

Afonso Portela

Atelier X

Germany

enxame na encosta

Celine Kohlhaas

FH Münster (Münster School of Architecture)

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

The interpretation of the site | A sign in the landscape

Giuseppe Pappadà

Paolo Pozzoni

Italy

The Link

Manh Thang Vu

France

Chapels Tale

Anton Burdein

Diana Burdein

Germany

PEACE AND WINE

Joanna Zimna

Cracow Univeristy of Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Apaixonar - Monte d'Oiro Wine Hotel

Aleksandra Petkova

New Bulgarian University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Bulgaria

Monte d'Oiro

Katarzyna Lech

Aneta Klementowska

Maja Pacek

Aneta Klementowska

Politechnika Wrocławska

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Horizontal Landmark

Igor Grippaldi

Andrea Vivera

Italy

GOLDEN OAK

Lisa Augustin

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Saar

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Bonheur

Nicolae Busca

Raluca Risnoveanu

Universitatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucuresti

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

Taste of Gold

Pavel Yanev

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Bulgaria