Fratelli Wines Industrial project, Akluj Commercial Building, Solapur-Maharastra Architecture, Photos
Fratelli Wines Industrial project in Akluj
Commercial Building Development in Solapur-Maharastra, India – design by Sunil Patil and Associates
10 Jan 2018
Fratelli Wines Industrial project
Design: Sunil Patil and Associates, Architects

Location: Akluj, Solapur-Maharastra, India
Fratelli Wines Industrial project

Wine making has been around for thousands of years. Nature provides everything that is needed to make wine, it is up to humans to embellish and improve it. Thus Sunil Patil and Associates’ Client who is from Italy and his counterpart in India wanted to have wine making unit at Akluj, Solapur so that they could produce one of the finest wines.
Five basic steps are involved in making wine: harvesting, crushing, fermentation, clarification, and aging and bottling. The unit has all; the client already had a huge vineyard spread in the premises. The brief was to have a plant with tank hall with a capacity of 9 lakh liters, processing units, bottling plant, cellar for storing the wines and admin block with wine testing lab.

Crushing, fermentation and filtration units have been created in the plant and adjacent to it, is the admin block. Buffer space has been given between the two buildings.

The finished product is provisioned to be racked into different vessel, where it is ready for bottling or further aging. The cellar has been designed underground the p...