The base is adjacent to the surrounding industrial structures of houses, factories and a distillery. The winding town road makes a 180-degree turn here, creating a commanding viewpoint before chugging majestically towards the higher peaks. The base is a little too close to the road, creating a cramped urban space that feels dangerous.
In China, where brewing is a tradition, the brewery is often integrated with the residential area of the town, even selling in a 'shop in front, workshop in back' style. This is clearly illustrated in Zhang Zeduan's 'Qingming Shanghe Tu' from the Northern Song Dynasty and in many areas of Sichuan today. We would like to use the building as an opportunity to create a more characteristic urban space: we suggest that the developers give back more land to create parks and viewing platforms for wine growing. The open experimental area of the building will be used as an exhibition space for the public. The building's disadvantage of a height difference of more than 30 metres is transformed by the setback into an open urban green space. The building becomes a backdrop to the landscape, allowing the public to observe the process of making the music, laying the sand, steaming and picking up the wine from the public space, which combined with the seasonality of the time of year, creates a unique and dynamic view of the city.
The complex has five different sections, creating multiple streams of people that are not meant to cross each other. Erlang's relatively mild climate allows us to use the introduction of a variety of gardens as a dividing medium: changes in topography, atriums and orientation allow the introduction of native plants to create different states of nature. The architecture uses clean, rigid lines, while the natural gardens introduce temperature and texture, creating a spatial sense of coexistence with native nature.