Date of Award

Spring 5-2017

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Architecture (MArch)

Department

Architecture and Spatial Planning

First Advisor

Dipl.-Eng

Second Advisor

Caroline JÄGER-KLEIN

Language

English

Abstract

Municipality of Rahovec1 is one of the Kosovo municipalities, known as a wine growing place since ancient times, with an area of 275, 5 km² and 71.522 inhabitants Viticulture in Rahovec is relatively well developed. There are two main wine cellars for grape processing and wine production. i) Stone Castle found in 1975 and, ii) Bodrumi i Vjeter (Old Cellar) build in 1953-54. In addition, it is important to mention here that in Rahovec are dozens of small family wine cellars. “Bodrumi i Vjetër” have a production capacity of 5.000.000 million L, and it used to be a social enterprise, however, since 2006 was privatized and belongs to NTP Haxhijaha. This master thesis uses winery “Bodrumi i Vjetër” as a case study. The aim of this master thesis is to present an alternative design of the wine cellar i.e. an idea how a wine cellar nowadays should look and be designed, reconstruction and conservation of “Bodrumi i Vjetër”. At the same time, make a conceptual analysis of the entire location where the wine cellar is located and give suggestions. Winery have an architecture style like an agriculture building cooperated in the area with agriculture land2, during 1953-54, and build with stone walls and suitable bricks. After privatization in 2006 by Haxhijaha family, the owner was interested in renovating the original building with the latest design trends. Therefore, this building I consider as a case study. By renovating this traditional wine cellar, which was industrial and closed to the public, I aim to make it accessible to the public. Therefore, there is a potential to encourage tourists to visit Rahovec not only for buying the wine, but also visit the vineyards where they can taste the grape, visit the winery where they can see wine processing (during the season) and, finally wine tasting complemented with traditional food. In addition,” Bodrumi i Vjetër” will provide accommodation for visitors within the area in cooperation with the Tourism Information Center in the city of Rahovec, as well as, they will provide day tours3 depending on what the visitors want to see/experience during their stay, also other different activities.

DOI

10.33107/ubt-etd.2017.950

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