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Kengo Kuma and Associates revealed the images of Beijing Tea House. The heart of Beijing, Forbidden City architecture of traditional Sihe salon style standing in front of the east gate of the eye (Forbidden Palace), was regenerated using a hollow block made of polyethylene.

Make a 4 types of polyethylene blocks using the method of rotational molding, and by stacking and combining it was the structure of extension parts.Beijing is a general construction of masonry with bricks, the polyethylene blocks, also Kengo Kuma said that modern lightly transparent organization elephant variations due to material. Polyethylene blocks having insulation performance, and is transmitted through the light, as in the paper that was used in the former Sihe Institute, produces a Zen space filled with soft light.

Project Facts

Location: China, Beijing
Program: 2010 - December 2014 membership tea house, club house
Size: 250 m2

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