TEA HOUSE
Location: Moorhead, Minnesota
Typology: Tea House
Date: Fall 2015
Model Materials: Yarrow, Wood, Velum
Drawing Medium: Chartpak Marker, Pen on Velum.
This was the first architectural assignment given to me when entering my sophomore year at NDSU. It was extremely comprehensive. Before the design of the tea house, we had to make multiple art projects that expressed our design intent as well as venturing to the site a few times a week. The art included Sumi ink paintings, poems, and we had to create a tea cup that will inspire the form of the building. The overall idea was inspired by a cycle of destruction and construction. A cycle that imitates a triangle; the three points of a triangle meaning to sustain, create, and destroy.
This was my favorite project of second year. I learned a lot from this project; my drawings, physical model, and speaking skills were all new challenges. I am most proud of the drawing that describe how to assemble the aluminum tea cup. It almost looks like a floor plan to a spaceship; there are dimensions, caution signs, directions, and the overall shape even resembles a spaceship. The IKEA drawings that show how to assemble a stool is also a favorite of mine. The amount of work and time that I put into this project really made me realize what it takes to be an architecture student.
