Tea Culture 茶文化體驗館 by Shenzhen Horizon Space Design Co.,Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 室內空間及展覽設計 Competition Category.
銀室內· 2021
Tea Culture 茶文化體驗館
by Shenzhen Horizon Space Design Co.,Ltd
Client: Shenzhen Horizon Space Design Co.,Ltd
A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 室內 Category
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About Tea Culture 茶文化體驗館
茶文化係一間細細嘅茶文化體驗館，設計成一個寧靜嘅品茶空間。多個橫向同縱向嘅空間連接成一個連貫嘅區域，遊人可以喺度自由行走、彼此相遇，或者停下嚟回望。佈局靈感嚟自摺紙，由此產生嘅視角轉換，令室內同時具備古典嘅靜謐同現代嘅活力。纖幼嘅格網取代咗紙張嘅表面質感。每個空間都簡化到只有單純嘅功能，令遊人喺奉茶之前得以放鬆。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀獎
Tea Culture 茶文化體驗館是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Tea Culture 茶文化體驗館將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Tea Culture 茶文化體驗館是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- 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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