Tea and Zen 茶室 by Qiang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铜室内· 2022

Tea and Zen 茶室

by Qiang Wang

Client: HBM Design

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Tea and Zen 茶室

“茶与禅”是一间位于广州北京路步行街附近老街巷中的茶室。建筑宽4.3米、进深20米、高三层半。红色火山岩饰面的立面临街而立，气质沉静而谦和。一方长方形庭院与中庭置于平面三分之一处，两侧设通道，令狭长的空间得以流动，并引入天光、空气与雨水。材料选用火山岩、感性质感地板、耐候涂料与木饰面。该设计将自然静谧的气息引入城市之中。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Tea and Zen 茶室是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Tea and Zen 茶室将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Tea and Zen 茶室出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Tea house is located in an old street near Beijing Road Pedestrian Street in Guangzhou. The facade of red volcanic rock stands on the side of the street with attitude and modesty. The designer realizes a kind of order by arranging some forms. This order is the pure creation of his spirit. He uses these forms to strongly influence our consciousness and stimulate the passion of modeling.
Dimensions & Packaging: The tea house is 4.3 meters wide, 20 meters long and three and a half stories high.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Oriental elements, Natural, Elegant, Teahouse
Production Technology: The main materials in this project are volcanic rock, sensitive floor, tinning resistant paint, fanpin wood veneer.
Design Challenge: Two houses are close to each other, with windows on the front and back. In such a long and narrow building space, how to design light and air circulation, and reasonable layout, has become the primary design focus point.
Research: Whether its "music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, tea" or "firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea", tea has never been far away from the Chinese people. Born in Guangdong, tea is the most common daily life in the neighborhood of hometown. And pay attention to drinking tea to the extreme, it has become the "tea ceremony". Space and time, water and heat, utensils and temperature, are not the same taste of tea.
Inspiration: The designer wants to design a house that feels natural in the city. So a rectangular patio and atrium were designed at one third of the teahouse. There are passageways on both sides of the atrium, which makes the small space flow. In this tea room, you can feel the circulation of the four seasons and the swimming of light, and you can experience the sunshine and the baptism of rain.
Project Duration: The project started in December 2019 in Guangzhou and finished in October 2010 in Guangzhou.
Operation Flow: The spiritual realm of Taoism is in accordance with the tea's quiet and tranquil character. The teahouse is not really that big. What makes it look big is the shadow, symmetry, long years, loneliness and the cup of tea.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Qiang Wang, 2020.
Team Members: Chief Designer: Qiang Wang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Qiang Wang, Display area, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Qiang Wang, Display area, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Qiang Wang, Lobby, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Qiang Wang, Stairs, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Qiang Wang, Skylight, 2020.