LIKNON Museum / Ok-Studio

Textual content description offered by the architects. Aiming to attach the Metaxa model to its roots, LIKNON is situated in a 100-year-old winery in Samos, the place its particular ingredient, the candy muscat grape grows.

The venture is a landmark in a valley beneath the village of Vourliotes, that may showcase the origins of Metaxa that are tightly sure to the island’s tradition, one with an extended custom in high-quality items and winemaking.

In LIKNON, the vine is the protagonist, and the normal idea of a museum constructing dissolves right into a walkthrough and an exploration of the vine’s habitat. Reasonably than a constructing, it’s a panorama, the place the customer wanders round and underneath the vines’ birthplace, and submerges underground to get in contact with the model’s historical past by way of an interactive expertise and a collection of sensory activations.

The structure of this surroundings is an extension of the productive dry stone terraces the place vines develop and borrows the dynamic and roughness of the pure and conventional productive panorama to be able to mix into the valley.

Along with the expertise within the Kifisia premises, LIKNON showcases not solely the origins of Metaxa but additionally the continuation and enlargement of its manufacturing circle past its limits, by way of experimental new merchandise and practices, in addition to the thrilling exploration of the drink’s textures when it’s present in a desk with native items.

As a substitute of a constructing, Liknon is a panorama, borrowing the dynamic of artifical stonewalls that mix into the valley. Following the traces of an historical path, it unravels onto consecutive plateaus held by “pezoules”, taking the customer on a walkthrough round and underneath the vines’ birthplace, submerging underground to be able to get in contact with the roots of the model by way of an interactive expertise and a collection of sensory activations.