A new winery and tasting room, set in the rolling hills outside of Dundee, Oregon. The project is pursuing LEED certification and includes innovative landscape features that go beyond certification points. Graywater reuse paired with a drought tolerant regional plant palette is projected to reduce water use by 97%. The landscape design also includes extensive Oregon white oak restoration in the natural areas near the building. In a region where the wine industry has historically been destructive to Oregon white oaks, this project is a chance to restore a fragment of the landscape once here.

Although site constraints over the septic field do not allow for new trees, this area is retrofitted as a tall meadow for hardy native perennial wildflowers, clusters of flowering native shrubs, and opportunity to enhance the pastoral aesthetic and increase the habitat value of an otherwise empty field.

One LEED credit for installing a native pollinator garden, with trees, shrubs, and perennials all native to the Willamette Valley eco-region, is dramatically exceeded by including the entire site rather than a small, dedicated portion.

Completed: In progress

Collaborators: Architecture by Urban Patterns