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Shangxia Tea Store

College of Design and Innovation Tongji University and Nong Studio

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SHANGXIA Tea Store Front View - SHANGXIA
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Single-Brand Store
6.08
7.04
6.69
5.56
6.34
Vicki Spielmann
Vicki Spielmann Group Creative Lead, Head of Brand Experience at Google
Wonderful use of light balanced wit...
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6.75
Bhavin Taylor
Bhavin Taylor Founder / Interior Designer at Bhavin Taylor Design
A calm and tranquil space...
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Howard Duffy
Howard Duffy Founder at HTDSTUDIO Arkitekter AB
A contemporary and approachable ent...
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8.25
Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson Architect at Mark Anderson Design
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5
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Lauren Touhey-Otto
Lauren Touhey-Otto Head of Design at Kinzo Architekten GmbH
Beautiful project! This is the sort...
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9.25
Tracey Wiles
Tracey Wiles Principal at woods bagot
A beautiful refined yet unexpected...
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4
7.75
Hana Ahriz
Hana Ahriz Co-founder at Space & Pepper
I really enjoyed reading the descri...
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7.25
Sam McMorran
Sam McMorran Strategy and Design Director at IDEO
Wonderfully controlled and incredib...
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7.75
Vivian van Schagen
Vivian van Schagen Founder at The Invisible Party
Thoughtful and poetic. A beautiful...
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8.5
Nic Lee
Nic Lee Design Director at Waterfrom Design Co., Ltd
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9.25
Puri Lighting Design
Puri Lighting Design Design Director at Beijing Puri Lighting Design
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7.5
Franziska Heuschkel
Franziska Heuschkel Founder at Space & Pepper
One can read and see that the archi...
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Agnes Kwek
Agnes Kwek Design Ambassador at DesignSingapore Council
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5.25
John Allsopp
John Allsopp Architect at John Allsopp Studio
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6.25
Client
Shangxia
Floor area
50 ㎡
Completion
2023
Budget
800000 RMB
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In ancient times, people often sat on the ground in a circle, either by waters that merged with the sky, beside a spring with rocks to rest upon, or amidst layers of green hills with scattered thatched cottages. Brewing tea was a common scene, showing that the Chinese have a deep love for tea. They consider tea as a friend and use it as a means to meet friends. Tea culture is deeply ingrained in every Chinese person's daily life.

The Shangxia brand, founded in 2010, has always been rooted in high-end Chinese fashion and lifestyle. It blends the East and the West, the classic and the contemporary, interpreting the diverse cultural characteristics of China. Deeply rooted in Chinese heritage, it uses an international design language to express the romantic aesthetics of China. In recent years, it has focused on Chinese tea culture as the entry point to its brand lifestyle, combining traditional tea culture with the fashionable aesthetics of contemporary Eastern style, aiming to convey a tea culture lifestyle aesthetic that meets modern aesthetic standards.

The Shangxia tea space located on the ground floor of Oneitc in Shanghai aims to reinterpret traditional Chinese tea spaces in a contemporary way. It allows all visitors to experience the charm of traditional tea culture while feeling the space's visual expression that meets modern aesthetic standards.

The overall design is inspired by the terrain of tea mountains and the architectural form of traditional tea pavilions. It uses handcrafted bamboo-joint patterned crackle-glazed tiles that are both contemporary and traditional, aiming to convey the Chinese preference for bamboo, embodied in the saying, "One can live without meat, but not without bamboo." The overall color scheme is inspired by the natural color of tea leaves and the elegant sky-blue color of Chinese Ru ware, combined with a design technique of gradual layering, to express the layered terracing of tea mountains, linking the earth to the sky. The mirror effect of display shelves creates a natural beauty scene like terraced fields after rain, shimmering with waves. Meanwhile, the design of the façade and the top of the central island uses the architectural language of flying eaves, resembling a beautiful tea house standing quietly in the vast tea fields.

"Green shadows of tea mountains surround the tea house, with a deep green essence hiding in the clouds and mist." In this green nature, we gently tell stories about tea.