Tea Culture 茶文化体验馆 by Shenzhen Horizon Space Design Co.,Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 银奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.
银室内· 2021
Tea Culture 茶文化体验馆
by Shenzhen Horizon Space Design Co.,Ltd
Client: Shenzhen Horizon Space Design Co.,Ltd
A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 室内 Category
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About Tea Culture 茶文化体验馆
《茶文化》是一座小型茶文化体验馆,被设计为静心品茶的场所。若干横向与纵向空间相互串联,形成一片连贯的区域,访客可在其中自由游走、彼此相遇,或驻足回望。空间布局灵感源自折纸,由此产生的视角变化令室内既具古典的静谧,又富现代的活力。纤细的格栅取代了纸张的表面肌理。每一处空间都被简化为单一功能,使访客在茶未上桌之前便已放松身心。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 银奖
Tea Culture 茶文化体验馆是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Tea Culture 茶文化体验馆将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Tea Culture 茶文化体验馆是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- The Project took only more than one month from design to opening. How to complete design and high-quality implementation in such short time? And I thought of the ancient literati and painters, who had often dealt with friends, but only a few strokes and words would reveal their broad mind, much better than a masterwork. So, I simplified what was complicated. The process looked quite like the original intention of the tea ceremony—to eliminate fidgetiness before tasting fragrance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- What came last was visual presentation. For the interspace distortion caused by the connecting paper, it was a contingent visual effect we wanted to achieve, giving the entire room not only classical calmness, but also modern vitality. Finally, the surface texture of paper was replaced with slender grids to express an elusory and visible Oriental mood.
- Tags
- Tea Culture Exploration Hall
- Production Technology
- Smelling Osmanthus Fragrance is a well-known story about Zen. Huang Tingjian, a great calligrapher and litterateur in the Northern Song Dynasty, practiced the dharma to reach understanding of Zen and seek enlightenment, but being short-tempered, he thought that the master didn’t teach him how to get enlightened although they had stayed together for many years. One day, they traveled leisurely between the earth and sky. The master asked, Have you smelled the fragrance of osmanthus flowers? Huang Tingjian answered, I have. Everywhere! The master laughed and said, As you know, I didn’t hide anything from you! Huang Tingjian perceived Zen through meditation: Like the beauty of living and the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, the way of life can be found everywhere and will never disappear, but everybody must smell and comprehend it himself. The same is true for the philosophical connotation of the tea ceremony, isn’t it? It is just that tea is used as the carrier to seek enlightenment. That’s called the tea ceremony at the cultural level.
At the substantial phase of design, the biggest obstacle encountered was that the spaces were too small. There would be no extra space provided that the room was given all functions, but the design would be uninteresting supposing that nothing more was added. As I was at my wits’ end, it struck me that some idea might be obtained from the paper folding game I played in my childhood, so I folded, unfolded and ripped A4 paper again and gain, finally joining a number of horizontal and vertical spaces together and making them into a holonomic one where people could walk freely, interact with one another or stop to look back, looking like a 3D hanging courtyard. Through functional ablation of each space, people could easily enter a calm state of relaxation and meditation. That should presumably be the most ideal state for tea affairs. - Inspiration
- When I was young, I despised the Japanese sado culture as a red tape, but I have now realized that I was so shallow because the tea ceremony is a process where one cultivates himself and seeks enlightenment. Years later, I heard the story of Smelling Osmanthus Fragrance in the Suzhou Garden and suddenly had my chaotic thoughts straightened out. It happened that my friend commissioned me to design a small-sized tea culture experience hall, so I named it Osmanthus Fragrance Cottage.
- Team Members
- Song Han
Hairong Wu
Wenxiang Zhou
Jianyong Zhu
Lingmin Wang
Yulan Liao
Qian Liu
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