Publications | Fuera de Serie

The prestigious supplement Fuera de Serie, from the newspaper Expansión, has featured Bodegas Dominio D’Echaux, a recent project by our studio.

Fuera de Serie is Expansión’s lifestyle and luxury magazine. Its content focuses on topics such as architecture, design, art, travel, automobiles, fashion, gastronomy, and profiles of influential figures — always from a sophisticated and aspirational perspective. The magazine highlights how the project combines constructive innovation, sustainability, and landscape sensitivity, once again reinforcing Fran Silvestre Arquitectos’ commitment to precise, elegant architecture deeply connected to its context.

Located in Zayas de Báscones (Soria), the project rises among the vineyards as a white, sinuous form that dialogues with the geometries of the landscape and blends gently into its surroundings. This winery not only houses the research facilities of Vitis Navarra but also safeguards and protects the genetic biodiversity of grapevines in Spain, including those species that still survive on the margins of the landscape and of time. The longitudinal layout of the proposal responds to the sequence of the winemaking process: from the arrival and destemming of the grapes, through fermentation in steel tanks, to the aging room with oak barrels, and finally, bottling. This linear path expands at specific points to incorporate a social and tasting area, as well as spaces dedicated to research and storage, while always maintaining the functional logic of the oenological process.

The walls, made of hempcrete blocks —a mixture of plant fibers, lime, and water— laid vertically, gain greater structural inertia thanks to their curved geometry and are reinforced by a lightweight, single-pitch metal roof. All the building elements are unified through a continuous coating of white Diathonite, a natural cork-based mortar applied to walls, floors, and ceilings. This system not only contributes to a unified and natural appearance but also provides significant thermal inertia, essential to ensure stable conditions inside the winery and to promote the optimal development of the wine during aging.

Bodegas Dominio D’Echaux joins projects by Carme Pinós, Francesc Rifé, and Norman Foster in Fuera de Serie’s feature on Architecture in the Vineyard — a collection showcasing different ways of capturing the formal spirit of wineries.