The objective of this competition was to remodel an existing building and to extend it to accommodate the headquarter of the ruling board for guarantee of origin “Ribera del Duero”.

The interpretation, as the principal search, gives capacity to the desire for knowledge that sustains the whole of artistic expression, while architecture, as a practicing art, can only be expressed constitutionally as interpretation, and the real is its space of knowledge.

As such, the project is simply founded as a unique interpretation of the reality of its place. It aspires to offer a space of difference where the things that compose its proximity –the city, the landscape, the atmosphere- are accommodated and which, as a mirror, reflects them.

The place has been carved by the city and the landscape, and the project, simply interprets this condition, outlining the difference that brings us closer to an understanding.

In this way, the building could be understood as a single expression of its surroundings, as an element of transition between the urban landscape, where it is inserted, and the natural landscape which confronts. The building moves in between those double tensions: it moves as it follows, adapts and finds an architectonic form for the meanings that synthesize the city and the landscape.

The project becomes a material conclusion of the existing volume, suggesting the need of a conclusive element that expresses the temporary disconnection of the new volume. This new element forms a dependent one, follows the lines of the old element and declares the impossibility of an authentic redefinition of its historic appearance.