Walk-In Cellar With a Glass Tower
A walk-in cellar that shows itself: a glazed tower on the outside, a working room inside, and the bottle wall continuing through both.
What the photographs show
A glazed enclosure standing inside a room, bottles visible from outside and the storage continuing inside, with a ramp or a threshold where the floor changes. The room is entered rather than opened.
What the build had to solve
A walk-in is a cooled box first and a cabinet second. The envelope has to be insulated and vapour-sealed before a single rack goes in, the glass is low-E laminated with a sealed frame, and the cooling is sized to the volume rather than to the bottle count. Cooling is specified at 110 V / 60 Hz where the room is in North America.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: sealing the envelope before fitting out. Worth avoiding: fitting racks before the vapour seal is tested — the seal is unreachable afterwards.
- Envelope
- Insulated and vapour-sealed first
- Glass
- Low-E laminated, sealed frame
- Cooling
- Sized to room volume; 110 V / 60 Hz for the US
- Threshold
- Ramp or step, drawn with the door
- Storage
- Cradles inside, display on the outer face
- Production
- 30 to 40 days, quoted per project
Frame 18 mm · glass panes up to 2,400 mm · scribe 40 mm · door reveal 3 mm · lead time 30 to 40 days, quoted per project · crated to a numbered setting-out drawing
The same scene, frame by frame
Photographs from our project archive, grouped by room type rather than by client. No client and no address is named on these pages.
What clients ask about a room like this one
Who builds the cooled box?
Either your builder to our specification, or us as a supplied unit. The envelope, the door and the cooling have to be one system, so the specification is written as a whole rather than as three purchases.
How is the temperature held?
By sizing the cooling to the volume and keeping the envelope sealed. A cellar that fights a glass wall needs more capacity than the same volume in a solid room.
A room like this one, to your dimensions
Send three photographs of the wall and the bottle count. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price.