Grace Upton Jones

My project can be defined as an honest farm and architecture proposition that frames the complex systems of the immediate landscape condition. The brief; a commercial scale vineyard and winery with a focus on minimal intervention wine making. Our site in Buckland lies on the face of Mount Buffalo. A unique ecosystem thrives in the valley and plays a vital role in the broader Victorian Alpine region. This farmland asks for a site specific implementation of agroecological and architectural practices. My proposal hopes to serve more than as a shell for wine making to occur, rather expose, capture, activate and reveal how these complex systems of the immediate landscape are behaving.