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CHAEN TEA EXPERIENCE
CHAEN TEA EXPERIENCE
Bangkok, Thailand
Project Featured on Jan 09, 2024
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CHAEN TEA EXPERIENCE
Bangkok, Thailand
Project Featured on Jan 09, 2024
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
CHAEN is a Thai famous tea brand with its own tea plantations, selling tea leaves and tea beverages across the country. CHAEN wanted to create a specialised space to provide the experience of tea drinking as a valuable culture to their customers therefore CHAEN Tea Experience, an exclusive tea shop was created.
The tea shop’s design concept is inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony, which is a ceremonial way of preparing and drinking tea delicately. Influenced by Zen Buddhism, the ceremony is designed for the guest to enjoy the calm and quiet moment provided by the host. One lesson from the ceremony is that every cup of tea is never the same, no matter how it is made by the same person. This becomes the beauty of the ceremony, the beauty of imperfection.
The idea of imperfection aesthetic is rooted in the teaching of ‘Wabi-sabi’ in Zen Buddhism which means to accept imperfection and impermanence. Wabi-sabi includes 7 principles, one of them is ‘Fukinsei’, saying that something is found pretty because it is asymmetry or irregular.
The designer applied this philosophy along with the interpretation of the appearance of the tea plantation to make the design of CHAEN Tea Experience. For example, asymmetry elements from Fukinsei principle, vertical and bending patterns of tea trees, natural materials influenced by the houses on the plantation.
Starting from the structure and the layout of the building. The building is originally an old 2-stories row house. The designer created a void on the second floor to connect the vertical space between the two floors as the previous space was too low and narrow. This void allows natural light to get through the building as well as separate the front and back parts. The staircase was moved from the middle of the building to the side to make the space flows continuously and replaced with a functional long table. When the customers enter the shop, they can order beverages at the front and walk to the long side of the table to observe tea preparation closely. After they receive their orders, they can choose to sit at the back on the first floor, a semi-outdoor area, to enjoy drinking tea in natural environment or go upstairs for floor seating. The front part on the second floor is for tea making workshop room.
For the design detail, the façade has asymmetry voids with different sizes of windows based on their function, emphasized by different finishing materials that reflect the space inside where this difference will be highlighted as time goes by. The entrance is decorated with Japanese garden and stone floor. Entering the shop, the cashier is placed for ordering beverages or buying tea leaves or souvenir gifts. The wall on the side of the double space is connected from the second to the first floor by mixed patterns of materials vertically. This is the featured wall that shows the idea of asymmetry in the interior since there is no system of the sizes of materials on the wall, contrasting with the more systematic and plain design on the surrounding. In the backyard, the seats are arranged with some seats under the building roof. Wooden walls on two sides are coloured and textured as burned wood.
Tea brewing workshop room is on the second floor where the design aims to help students focus on what they are doing so the lights are only bright on the table. The window is also designed to narrow the view and dim the sunlight to avoid distraction from the outside. The tea-drinking floor seats at the back of this floor are on the leveled-up floor, resembling the Japanese design where there is some step before entering the floor seating area for taking off shoes.
The tea shop’s design concept is inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony, which is a ceremonial way of preparing and drinking tea delicately. Influenced by Zen Buddhism, the ceremony is designed for the guest to enjoy the calm and quiet moment provided by the host. One lesson from the ceremony is that every cup of tea is never the same, no matter how it is made by the same person. This becomes the beauty of the ceremony, the beauty of imperfection.
The idea of imperfection aesthetic is rooted in the teaching of ‘Wabi-sabi’ in Zen Buddhism which means to accept imperfection and impermanence. Wabi-sabi includes 7 principles, one of them is ‘Fukinsei’, saying that something is found pretty because it is asymmetry or irregular.
The designer applied this philosophy along with the interpretation of the appearance of the tea plantation to make the design of CHAEN Tea Experience. For example, asymmetry elements from Fukinsei principle, vertical and bending patterns of tea trees, natural materials influenced by the houses on the plantation.
Starting from the structure and the layout of the building. The building is originally an old 2-stories row house. The designer created a void on the second floor to connect the vertical space between the two floors as the previous space was too low and narrow. This void allows natural light to get through the building as well as separate the front and back parts. The staircase was moved from the middle of the building to the side to make the space flows continuously and replaced with a functional long table. When the customers enter the shop, they can order beverages at the front and walk to the long side of the table to observe tea preparation closely. After they receive their orders, they can choose to sit at the back on the first floor, a semi-outdoor area, to enjoy drinking tea in natural environment or go upstairs for floor seating. The front part on the second floor is for tea making workshop room.
For the design detail, the façade has asymmetry voids with different sizes of windows based on their function, emphasized by different finishing materials that reflect the space inside where this difference will be highlighted as time goes by. The entrance is decorated with Japanese garden and stone floor. Entering the shop, the cashier is placed for ordering beverages or buying tea leaves or souvenir gifts. The wall on the side of the double space is connected from the second to the first floor by mixed patterns of materials vertically. This is the featured wall that shows the idea of asymmetry in the interior since there is no system of the sizes of materials on the wall, contrasting with the more systematic and plain design on the surrounding. In the backyard, the seats are arranged with some seats under the building roof. Wooden walls on two sides are coloured and textured as burned wood.
Tea brewing workshop room is on the second floor where the design aims to help students focus on what they are doing so the lights are only bright on the table. The window is also designed to narrow the view and dim the sunlight to avoid distraction from the outside. The tea-drinking floor seats at the back of this floor are on the leveled-up floor, resembling the Japanese design where there is some step before entering the floor seating area for taking off shoes.
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