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Heytea DP3, Guangzhou

Junjie Yan

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Designer
Junjie Yan
Client
Heytea
Floor area
150.00 ㎡
Completion
2018

Beyond the mounts, and people beyond
-exploring a new social relationship in the context of our era.

Beyond the Mounts is Heytea’s third store of the DP (Daydreaming Project) Series. Continued with the design concept of the previous two, the space is carried out experimentally in order to explore the way people gather and scatter in the shop. Differing from the ordinary tea shops with seats spread out, the long tea table that goes through the whole space makes the aggregation of the customers possible.

Additionally, the structures that represent the layering hills in the cloud world, which is a classsical scene in the Chinese traditional ink-and-wash paintings, upheave irregularly on the top of the table, and meanwhile, divide the tea drinkers into various sections functionally. With the white, curved and mountain-like ceiling above, it seems like, with the help of imagination, that customers are placed in the scenario created in the renowned ancient painting, Spring Mounntain and Auspicious Pines, by Fu Mi of Song Dynasty: in the valleys teemed with cloud and mist and mountains shadowed by the greens, a sip of tea is taken on each seat.