Midterm..

I'm a little late getting this blog set up. It's purpose is to follow my progress in designing a winery for my father on his land out in Brown County of Southwestern Ohio. Apparently he has a great spot for grape-growing! Anyway, I'm an architecture student and thought this would make for an interesting study project. Plus, it's a fun and helpful project for my dad as well. We've been trying to meet weekly to discuss where to go next (although, weekly doesn't always happen due to his full time job and my part-time job..).
This project has been going on for about 2 months now, so to bring everyone up to date..

January--lots of reading and research about vineyards, growing grapes, wineries, equipment etc.
From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine by Jeff Cox
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Winery by Thomas Pellechia
Winery Design edited by teNeues
February--Beginnings of design [bubble diagrams, adjacencies, intial floor plans, napkin
sketches]
Winery Weekend [February 19th-20th]
2.19: Visited Kinkead Ridge Winery in Ripley, OH (also in Brown Cnty). Spoke with owner and
wine maker Ron Barrett about small winery design (and much more about wineries in
general..more on that later)
Also ventured over to Meranda-Nixon Winery in Ripley to check out their setup and speak
with owner and wine maker Seth Meranda and his wife Tina.
2.20: Visited Elk Creek Winery in Owenton, KY and toured the winery--stark contrast from either
of the wineries in OH..a much larger operation.
Traveled a little further south past Lexington, KY to visit Jean Farris Winery and Bistro. We
were able to take a peak at their winery operation in the building behind the restaurant and
meet the winemaker Ben O'Daniel (who also makes wine at Elk Creek), and the owner,
Jean Farris.
Since the winery visits, I've been going over pages of notes from Mr. Barrett and attempting to
organize and apply all the information he and the other winery owners supplied me with so
willingly.

So there's a brief overview of the project thusfar..now back to the sketchbook!