HIGH SCHOOL WITH AN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION MODEL

Wine-land High School
Fatma Bilge Özgür

 From the moment you set foot in Avanos, you can feel a historical and social texture that surrounds you. Avanos is a city whose heart beats with earth. This land that yields grapes becomes wine, and if mud becomes pottery, it is such a fertile field.  
 

 With Wine-Land high school, it is aimed to transfer the wine-making culture, which has been passed from father to child for generations, on a professional basis. Home to 120 students on 40 hectares, wine-land high school has student and public spaces. While the areas for students are a high school building, a sport field, and a dining hall. The areas open to outside guests are a museum, a library, a tasting and sales area with a cellar, a cafe, a building where the mechanical process progresses where they can visit certain parts, and a 4-hectare vineyard. Wine-Land High School, which provides a 4-year high school education, provides English language education in its first year, while the grape 101 education in the second year explains the grape process from soil to harvest. In the third year, they receive training on the production and fermentation process of wine, and in their last year, they receive bottling, presentation and tasting training. On weekends, retro wine production training and an English language course are given to foreign guests. The existing water channel was arranged and the empty land next to it was greened and landscaping was done. The treadmill on the coastal band was continued and offered to the public. Extra hard ground has been created for the use of vehicles in emergency situations. Local materials and local human power were used in its construction. An example of this local material is the oniyx stone specific to the Cappadocia region, which is used on the exterior design. In the exterior design, the analogy of pouring the wine from the bottle to the glass has been made.