The Tea House – Southern Tasmania

Project Brief

The Tea House – Ecoshelta: A large scale industrial commercial building in three wings, a high open naturally vented winery, earth bermed cold dark cellar, and a commercial cellar door sales area – using a modified Ecoshelta alloy frame system for the front wings and combined with precast concrete frame and vault cellar with rammed earth walls. The main winery has a twisted plane roof form and is over 12m high, with 60m long and 6m high lime rendered straw bale walls.