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nana's green tea LaLaPort TOKYO BAY

Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Lead Designers Masahiro Yoshida
Completion Date May 2015
Entry Description

"Nodate"

I focused on Nodate, which is a way of tea ceremony. It is an open-air tea ceremony in which people enjoy green tea and nature in a good season for.
Actually people spread a felt carpet on the ground in order to provide the psychological border between tea space and outside. This time, however, I deliberately bring in trees to create the psychological "border" that is an essential thing for Nodate, in order to let customers experience indoor Nodate.
By arranging 70 columns that liken to trees, to be seen the paths between trees (columns) as well as forest and trees (columns) determine the people flow itself but also they are disposed at random so that each people has own discovery.
Moreover, for the sake of realization of bamboo thicket that is familiar to Japanese people, the theme of this forest is "The Tale of the bamboo Cutter", which is a well-known Japanese tale, particularly the first chapter that "Princess Kaguya" was born from a bamboo.