A garage designed to hold two cars in a line has become a private space devoted to wine and conviviality. Showine transformed the innermost part of the space into a tavern with bottle racks, a service area, climate control and a large olive-wood table: a setting designed for choosing a bottle, opening it and sharing it with friends.
Reclaiming space without giving up the garage
The starting point was a particularly deep garage, sized to park two cars one behind the other.
The owner chose to keep part of it for parking and to give the innermost volume a completely different purpose: creating a personal space in which to keep wine and gather for a tasting.
The separation made it possible to create a real room without touching the main living areas of the house. On one side the garage carries on as before; on the other begins a secluded space, designed to make you quickly forget the place you entered from.
Building the atmosphere of a wine cellar
One of the main challenges was to transform the garage’s original surfaces, making the space lose its technical character without resorting to overly heavy structures.
For the ceiling, preformed high-density polystyrene panels were used, shaped to build the vault and then clad with thin brick elements.
The same approach was used for the walls and for the corner columns: apparently structural elements that in fact conceal a lightweight construction and help give the space continuity.
Brick as a common thread
Brick runs through the whole project, from the vault down to the floor, where the leftover pieces from the work were reused in the paving.
Material, geometry and light thus build a warm, secluded atmosphere, very far from that of the original garage.
The final effect does not come from an isolated decorative element, but from the continuity between ceiling, walls, columns and floor.
Everything you need to enjoy wine
The space has been organised not only to store the bottles, but to taste them right there.
Along the walls are the shelves for the collection. At the far end, Showine built a service unit with glass holders and a sink, alongside a wine fridge for wines to be served at lower temperatures.
At the centre of the space, a large olive-wood table becomes the point around which to enjoy a tasting and welcome guests.
Comfort and storage in the same space
Climate control completes the project and makes it possible to manage the conditions in the room, while the wine fridge provides a dedicated temperature for bottles that call for colder serving.
The various functions have therefore been distributed within the same space without turning it into a purely technical wine cellar: storage, service and conviviality coexist in a space designed first and foremost to be lived in.
Walk in from a garage, find yourself elsewhere
This is probably the aspect that best tells the story of the project.
The part for the car remains a few metres away, but once inside the tavern, materials, proportions and the perception of the space change completely.
The brick vault, the olive-wood table, the bottles along the walls and the light create a self-contained setting, designed for devoting time to wine and company.
Showine followed the work, supplying the fitting-out components and turning a domestic volume normally given over to a service function into a personal space dedicated to tasting.
From garage to private wine cellar for tastings
A garage designed to hold two cars in a line has become a private space devoted to wine and conviviality. Showine transformed the innermost part of the space into a tavern with bottle racks, a service area, climate control and a large olive-wood table: a setting designed for choosing a bottle, opening it and sharing it with friends.
Reclaiming space without giving up the garage
The starting point was a particularly deep garage, sized to park two cars one behind the other.
The owner chose to keep part of it for parking and to give the innermost volume a completely different purpose: creating a personal space in which to keep wine and gather for a tasting.
The separation made it possible to create a real room without touching the main living areas of the house. On one side the garage carries on as before; on the other begins a secluded space, designed to make you quickly forget the place you entered from.
Building the atmosphere of a wine cellar
One of the main challenges was to transform the garage’s original surfaces, making the space lose its technical character without resorting to overly heavy structures.
For the ceiling, preformed high-density polystyrene panels were used, shaped to build the vault and then clad with thin brick elements.
The same approach was used for the walls and for the corner columns: apparently structural elements that in fact conceal a lightweight construction and help give the space continuity.
Brick as a common thread
Brick runs through the whole project, from the vault down to the floor, where the leftover pieces from the work were reused in the paving.
Material, geometry and light thus build a warm, secluded atmosphere, very far from that of the original garage.
The final effect does not come from an isolated decorative element, but from the continuity between ceiling, walls, columns and floor.
Everything you need to enjoy wine
The space has been organised not only to store the bottles, but to taste them right there.
Along the walls are the shelves for the collection. At the far end, Showine built a service unit with glass holders and a sink, alongside a wine fridge for wines to be served at lower temperatures.
At the centre of the space, a large olive-wood table becomes the point around which to enjoy a tasting and welcome guests.
Comfort and storage in the same space
Climate control completes the project and makes it possible to manage the conditions in the room, while the wine fridge provides a dedicated temperature for bottles that call for colder serving.
The various functions have therefore been distributed within the same space without turning it into a purely technical wine cellar: storage, service and conviviality coexist in a space designed first and foremost to be lived in.
Walk in from a garage, find yourself elsewhere
This is probably the aspect that best tells the story of the project.
The part for the car remains a few metres away, but once inside the tavern, materials, proportions and the perception of the space change completely.
The brick vault, the olive-wood table, the bottles along the walls and the light create a self-contained setting, designed for devoting time to wine and company.
Showine followed the work, supplying the fitting-out components and turning a domestic volume normally given over to a service function into a personal space dedicated to tasting.
The project gallery