Plato Wines

"Nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains..." An old Cheyenne saying was heard And as this thought filtered through my brain Emotions deep inside me were spurred Perhaps what we think we thought we knew Maybe we don't really know The lasting effects of man's built world On the things that naturally grow "To imitate nature is to insult beauty" One famous architect once said So rather than create an "organic" form Why not something mathematic instead? So I looked way back to the ancients Who used platonic forms as earth's base And found the simple angles of a cube Best defined a volume of space So when weather is cold and things aren't used We'll close it down, tight seal But harvest comes and the weather's warm Open walls, inside to reveal And when it's done, man's life has passed Disassemble, load it up, and haul away Leaving little evidence of our presence Mother Nature lives on here to stay

PLATO WINES Springdale, Utah PRESTON CROXFORD university of utah college of architecture + planning class of 2009 "Nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains..." An old Cheyenne saying was heard And as this thought filtered through my brain Emotions deep inside me were spurred Perhaps what we think we thought we knew Maybe we don't really know The lasting effects of man's built world On the things that naturally grow "To imitate nature is to insult beauty" One famous archi-tect once said So rather than create an "organic" form Why not something mathemat-ic instead? So I looked way back to the ancients Who used platonic forms as earth's base And found the simple angles of a cube Best defined a volume of space So when weather is cold and things aren't used We'll close it down, tight seal But harvest comes and the weather's warm Open walls, inside to reveal And when it's done, man's life has passed Disassemble, load it up, and haul away Leaving little evidence of our pres-ence Mother Nature lives on here to stay N winery site plan • F ;;, ''-...;.If' ,.~,. - ... : ,ot.: . ___: 1$''1''-'' ' .­. ~.:.-.,,- <' P.' .- . .,.-1 .,"- ,0' • Restaurant/ Tasting/ Retail uCl,a .. 5_3 Wine Production 1 2 - x 12- BT'WCT UOU,'- TUB" " TUL BOLTEO MOM .... T CO .... ECT'O .. " T"" .. "LUCENT 2 ' 0'''. "o""RETE "'E~ B N O R T H ELEYATIPN SpyTH E L E YAT'PN w E S T £LEYAT'PN EAS T £LEYATIP N S E CTIQ N 5-2 ~C "' L": N.T.S . "No object is so beautiful that, under cer-tain conditions it will not look ugly." -Oscar wilde "Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear - the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break... I sometimes choose to think… that man is a dream, thought an illu-sion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun." -Edward Abbey "In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary." -Ernest Hemingway b e a u t y s i m p l i c i t y s y m m e t r y m o d u l a r i t y r e g u l a r i t y s u s t a i n a b i l i t y