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DUELING TEA SHACKS
STUDIO II: TEA HOUSE STUDY
SPRING 2019 INTRUCTOR : ANNICIA STREETE
The design began through an investigation of movement through time and space. I began to re-organize experiences between nature, structure and tea observed in traditional tea house presidents. This is done to create more dynamic relationships between these 3 experiences, flipping the separation of space and experience, observed in the traditional tea house.
The experience becomes more about our relationship with nature and structure, while tea becomes the link between the two. Tea is served in the beginning of the journey, where structure and nature blend together, in a forest shack. This becomes the threshold taking people from the outside and preparing them for the central garden.
When leaving the garden, people pass through the tea shop, where they can buy select tea to take part of the experience with them. Here structure and nature become separate, much like the traditional tea house. Allowing for focused reflection of such relationships, before they carry on to their lives beyond.
When spaces occur in sequence
Past Location
How Long Spaces Feel
New Location
The spatial experience is lengthened but shifting blocks off the horizontal axis
Changing the spatial sequence, changes when certain spaces are experienced. Moving the small space to the front creates a moment of compression before entering the big space, creating an entirely new experience then before.
CHANGING TEMPORAL EXPERIENCE
SITE
Site Move
Open Plain
Forest
Here the natural conditions of the site are disrupted by cutting a portion of the forest and pulling it across the plain. The move makes the past location of the lot clear by leaving an impression in the forest and dragging marks across the plain. The new location sits high above the plain and sticks out from it’s surroundings with a clear connection to where it came from. Creating two opposing experiences with nature: one integrated and one separated.
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2. Central Garden
1. Tea Shack
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3. Tea Shop
Site Plan
RE-ORGANIZING EXPIRIENCE IN SPACE & TIME
Movement Across Time
STUDY OF A TRADITIONAL TEA HOUSE
The Traditional Tea House uses nature to build up the moment of having tea. Experiences become separate and methodically sequential. This is done to get the person in a still and focused mindset. And when drinking tea, other stimulations become muted in order to focus the person on the physical moment of drinking tea.
RE-ORGANIZING EXPIRIENCE
Tea Shack
The Dueling Tea Shacks flip the traditional tea house on its head. Tea now becomes the device to get the person in the mindset to experience nature, instead of the opposite. Tea is conduit for experience and is served at the entry of the garden in the tea house. Structure and nature become blended as the tea house humbles the person by bringing them into the ground and releases them back up as the walls and ceilings dissolve into the tree canopy above.
Tea Shop
Central Garden
Tea Shack
Blended Expiriences
Seperated Expiriences
At the end, the experience is more traditional, yet with a modern twist. Nature is raised above and only observed, and the humble structure becomes the a tea shop, where people can focus on the tea they want to take home with them. Experiences become separate to enhance focus and reflection... and potentially consumption.
Tea Shop
Tea Shack
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