SEI-AN Stargazing Tea Rooms 茶室 by Moriyuki Ochiai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 建築・建物・構造物デザイン Competition Category.
鉄建築· 2018
SEI-AN Stargazing Tea Rooms 茶室
Client: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects Inc.
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 建築 Category
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About SEI-AN Stargazing Tea Rooms 茶室
〜星空の星座の茶室〜 落合守之建築設計事務所は、「星と自然と人とを繋ぐ茶室」として、周囲の景色と星空を望む茶室群を設計しました。天体観測の聖地として知られる岡山県美星町にあります。彼らの設計チームは、この新たに形成された茶室の帯と美星ののどかな丘、山、星空を融合させることで、町のパノラマを再形成する茶室の実現を目指しました。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
SEI-AN Stargazing Tea Rooms 茶室は、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。SEI-AN Stargazing Tea Rooms 茶室は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。SEI-AN Stargazing Tea Rooms 茶室は、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The open arrangement of the structures forms a stage conductive to various events and activities by creating a space where multiple indoor and outdoor activities become possible.
The Japanese tea room was developed as an enclosed microcosm called a enclosure, and as such each unit is designed as a spatial installation where one can perceive minute changes in its natural surroundings and experience the wonder and mystery of natural phenomena.
Painted with stellar colors, each volume presents polygonal openings from which can be taken in the beautiful offerings of nature such as light, rain and the starry night sky. Moreover, mirrors placed on the exterior walls reflect the ever-changing outdoor environment like the water surface of rice paddies scattered across Bisei, thus modifying the look and perception of the constructions throughout the day. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 16 tea house,wide 1800mm, length 1800mm, height 2100mm
- Tags
- tea room,tea house,tea ceremony,constellation,star,tea,stargazing ,bisei,sky-watching,moriyuki ochiai,design,nijigennomori,galaxy,seian
- Production Technology
- Materials- Ceiling/Wall:special painted wood
- Design Challenge
- Visitors can experience the project as a galaxy of tea rooms built independently as they move in and around them freely. The outdoor space, taken as the space comprised between the tea rooms, the surrounding nature and the starry sky are beautifully intertwined to form a new landscape that comes in and out of view through the openings and gaps cut out from the multiple structures. The loose gathering of tea rooms forms an extension of the landscape and creates an environment enhancing the fun and joy derived from human activities.
By merging together this newly formed belt of tea rooms with the idyllic hills, mountains and starry skies of Bisei, we sought to realize an tea house that reshapes the town's panorama. - Research
- Please refer to PROJECT DESCRIPTION.
- Inspiration
- - Constellation of Stargazing Tea Rooms
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We designed a cluster of tea rooms offering a view of the surrounding scenery and the starlit sky as an tea house connecting people to the stars and nature" located in the town of Bisei, Okayama Prefecture, known as a sanctuary for stargazing.
The site is surrounded by rolling hills and distant mountains and offers a view on a spectacular landscape. Deliverable included a place able to accommodate a variety of events held throughout the year by the Astronomy Club and the Tea Ceremony Club as well as a performance stage for concerts and plays.
Named after two rivers running though it, the town of Bisei (beautiful stars in English) is found in Okayama Prefecture which is also known for being the birthplace of Eisai, a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with introducing green tea to Japan. In alignment with its heritage, the constellation of tea rooms is also in harmony with the surrounding undulating terrain, thus creating a landscape in which the indoor and outdoor expand seamlessly like the flow of a river under the Milky Way. - Project Duration
- The project began in December 2016, completed in January. 2018, located in bisei-okayama and awajiiland in Japan
- Operation Flow
- Please refer to PROJECT DESCRIPTION.
- Patents
- Moriyuki Ochiai Architects Inc.
- Team Members
- Client:irbisei, nijigennomori/Pasona Group__Design:Moriyuki Ochiai,Jillian Lei, Xingguang Li, Marie Uno,Haruka Amano,Yuta Takahashi__Constructor:Takei Construction(Kunji Takei),CA leading(Osami Hiroyama,Masakazu Hirose,Yoshiko Makabe,Kazuya Okuno,Sanae Iwamoto),Soken Group__Paint:Masanao Uchida__Special Paint:Osamu Yamaguchi__Soundsystem:Yoshiyuki Kanamori(Oasis)__Videography:Kazuma Goto(OHK Okayama Broadcasting),Noriko Nishiguchi,Shinichi Hisamatsu,Hajime Kishii__Lighting:Color Kinetics Japan(Masaki Yamashita,Koki Yano,Miyahara Yusuke)__Tea ceremony set:Nanzan Ito,Kenyu Mitsuhashi (Kamakurabori Niyodo),Yuko Nakano__Tea ceremony:Fumiko Miyake ,Fujimi Ishikawa __site:Yumegahara__Bisei-cooperator:Naoya Kawakami,Teruyuki Yamamuro Yasuhiro Fujiwara,Kazuyuki Touda,Koushi Takeuchi,Yoshiki Sakai,Tetsuya Yamane,Souhei Mimura,Chikara Nakamoto,Masayoshi Takei,Toshihiro Harada,Kenta Takei,Kazuhiro Harada,Ryo Takasaki,Tatsuhiko shimada,Naoya Sugimoto,Ayako Daito__Cooperator:Norihiro Ariyoshi(soken group),Yoshinori Takedo(grop)
- Image Credits
- fumio araki
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