The project we designed is a teahouse that specially provides non-pesticide tea, and it is located in Hangzhou, China.

Hangzhou is one of the famous production areas of Long Jing tea. Those steep tea hills can be seen on the edge of the West Lake. In those tea hills, many pieces of terraced farming are scattered around the hills. Inspired by the terrace fields, we wanted to bring these great landscapes into this design.

The designed furniture for teahouse like display case which has local landscape feature. The materials we used include the Cinderella color marble which is Italian made, combined with a corrugated and misty glass pane to make a separate cabinet, then group this with different height levesl into display cases.

The diameter of the round table is designed into 6.2m. And table’s surface was made up by overlaying pieces of artificial marble, which presents gradual fluctuation of terrace farmings, then injecting water into the groove in surface of the table. With the different height level of the groove in the table, the color of water is different. The project located in the commercial and populated city, so we are trying to use this distance design in order to let people enjoy enough space.