Greenroofs.com Project of the Week: 1/6/14

Mt Difficulty Winery Wine Barrel Store
Bannockburn, Central Otago, New Zealand
9,688 sq. ft Greenroof

 Project Description & Details

New Zealand’s Central Otago Pinot Noir is a world renown drop of red and Mt Difficulty Wines are sure to feature right up there in many a decent wine list. Due to the increasing popularity of their wine, Mt Difficulty had to scale up their boutique winery to cope with the demand. Designed as a low energy input winery, Mt Difficulty Winery vineyards are managed in a way that reflects their commitment to be as gentle with the environment as possible.

The brief for the new barrel store was to create a temperature controlled and environmentally conscious space that would fit into the surrounding Central Otago landscape. The resulting building is an earth toned exposed aggregate pre-cast panel construction buried back into the hillside with a vegetated living roof by LiveRoof covering the entire 900m2 roof footprint. Stormwater360 developed and installed a palette of grasses suited to the lightweight pumice based growing medium and mixed in locally sourced thyme for aromatics and sedum for color. The roof can be viewed looking down from the Mt Difficulty restaurant and tasting room while enjoying a glass your favorite wine.

Year: 2012
Owner: Mt Difficulty Wines
Location: Bannockburn, Central Otago, New Zealand
Building Type: Commercial
Type: Extensive
System: Single Source Provider
Size: 9,688 sq.ft.
Slope: 1.6%
Access: Accessible, Private

Designers/Manufacturers of Record:

Designer: Greg Yeoman, Stormwater360
Modular Greenroof System: LiveRoof®
LiveRoof® Supplier: Stormwater360, New Zealand
Grower: Central Otago Property Services
Installation: Stormwater360
Growing Medium: UrbanGreen Roofmix, Stormwater360
Architectural Designer: Wild Rooster Design

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