The Site and the Research on Wine

After some research on wine and talking to my brother who is obsessed with wine tasting and collecting.

I know some standards of a room for wine collecting and the site preferences for a wine taster.

Quality of Wine can be affected mainly by the room's: Temperature, Humidity and Lighting.

Lighting is the first factor that can be fixed since my original thought for the room is complete dark and only a slit of light comes in. All I have to do is keeping the shelves of wine away from that "slit of light".

Since there will be no windows for the room, I decided to have the temperature and humidity controlled manually instead of depending on natural ventilation.

Therefore the gap/slit on the wall will be fixed with glass and there will be no open window in the space.

The reason why I want shelves for wine in the room is inspired by my own collection of books, I feel deeply happy when I see the wall of books that I collect; therefore I extend this to the wine taster/collector: "It is a pleasure for a wine taster and collector to see a wall of wine in front of him whenever he wants."

This room I design, for the man, is a shelter from the outside world. In the painting, he is in his own world by enjoying the glass of wine; I want to create this space just for him and when he is in there he is protected from every distraction and is contained with himself (and wine).

In the painting he is distracted by the card game and the players, where he was is full of distraction, therefore I want to put him in a completely different environment/country to give him complete solitude.

Although for a person who is interested in wine collecting and tasting Burgundy in France should be best location but that is if he goes out to the vine yards and taste their wine.

He is not moving in the painting and my design therefore there is no need to locate the site in Burgundy.

Kyoto is the first location my brother mentioned when I said it's a room for the man to drink not a trip for him to taste wine.

The image he pictured is simple but romantically beautiful:

Sitting under a blossoming sakura tree(cherry tree) with a glass of wine, and a petal of sakura falls in the glass, floating on the wine...

Therefore I decided to have the site in Kyoto where has beautiful sakura trees.

Also because of calmness and serene atmosphere Kyoto gives to people, I think it is perfect for a man who is finding his own content. It is also a place for people to visit when they want to see cherry blossom. A city full of history and decorated with cherry trees is the site for my design.

But I don't want the site to be crowded so it won't be the busiest part of Kyoto but a quite section of the city where mainly for residence.

The house will provide the man to see the civilization outside his world (like he watches the game) but the courtyard and the building will distance him from it.

The site's features are : flat and surrounding by cherry trees.