“Tea … is a religion of the art of life.” – Kakuzo Okakura
Beverages are one of the major attractions to people irrespective of their age, ethnicity, or gender, they hold a very important place in the culinary and food industry. The quality, variety, and innovative methods are changed and recreated with passing time in beverage production. But what remains is its love by people all around the globe.
Tea has transcended beyond it being a favorite drink. That is quite evident from the huge statistics of tea drinkers around the world. About 297 billion liters of tea are drunk all around the world. Making itself the second most drunk beverage after water, and it makes itself top in most people’s favorite lists. Sometimes it’s the ice, lemon, sugar, or milk; combined however one prefers. But still adored by all. There is hardly any specific occasion for which tea couldn’t be served. It can be drunk anywhere and anytime with anyone you like. Something which makes it a magical potion that can influence people worldwide.
As the song goes, by Jack Buchanan, in England, “everything stops for tea”. There is hardly anyone in the whole United kingdom who will ever deny a generous cup of tea. Tea has become more a way of the British lifestyle than a mere delicacy that they love to savor. Today, British everyday life includes an afternoon tea time especially reserved for tea. And the love for tea has been observed in the British way of living since generations gone and many to come, as there had been tremendous variations observed in the way of tea making and its offering.
But what hasn’t changed a bit is the love for it in any region of the UK, and this household drink has expanded itself years back into the commercial and social context; by creating spaces that are specially dedicated to tea, its different types, and brewing methods. In the end, there isn’t any better thing than to have a place for tea amidst its lovers. The idea of expanding the tea from the kitchen of the normal household to bringing it to a social level. It is a transition that can be created through space that will not just offer tea to its lovers. But will also unite them in a place they would love to visit often.
Brief: This challenge aimed to create a tea house that will act as a café where a variety of tea will be served to the people who love to savor it.
Creating a space that will bring the tea lovers together in a cozy and warm cafe that offers the luxury and space to spend time with their favorite beverage. Space like this is meant to create a kind of environment that will offer people to experience the tea-savoring process through a variety of senses and will have a space to catch up with their friends and others.
Some of the Best competition projects are as follows:
Winning Project: By-hearth Tearoom
By: Ali Khani, Maryam Shariati & Atefeh Mohammadi
Description: Drinking tea next to the welcoming warmth of the fire. The main mass of the building is divided into two separate parts, each with a different function. The upper floor is the gathering hall and the lower floor functions as a tea bar.
Editor’s Choice: No.51 Tea House
By: Po-Yu Chung & Yu-Jun Yeh
Description: Two main concepts were considered from a pedestrian’s perspective. First, we can see the height of the teahouse is lower than the first-floor height of the neighbor building. Also, the discontinuous wall makes the tea house works as a sculpture in a public park, which invites everyone to play and interact with it.
Editor’s Choice: Tea Lamp
By: Andrea Ignazio Russo
Description: As tea collect around himself a variety of different cultures, a variety of way of living, a variety of way of drinking, a variety of people, the idea behind the design was to enclose under a unifying “shell-structure” a variety of possibilities to drink it. A tea house is not just a space where one go-to drink and eat, is not just a space, it is a social place, a place to live in where one can go alone, or with friends, to relax, or to socialize, to read a book, or to work at the computer.
Editor’s Choice: …the little tea house on the hill
By: Anastasia Chatzikonstantinou
Description: A little cafe in the small, cozy village of Bellingham, England, which specializes in offering the best tea party experience to its guests. Bellingham is a small village near Newcastle. A quiet community on a small hill, close to nature. Pennine Way, one of the village’s larger roads, as well as the one our plot is located along, is said to be quite popular with hikers and cyclists.
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