House with Tearooms

The project proposes to prioritize slowness in everyday life by reexamining traditional tea culture as an adjunct to the conventional housing typology. Multiple tearooms are embedded in a standard 8m by 8m steel-frame structure. They interact with the living units at each floor level, encouraging the public to experience the tearooms while maintaining privacy in domestic spaces. The tearooms engage with the adjacent units through a flexible device: a rotatable door that allows for the transformation of the tearooms into either public or private spaces. The shared tearooms blur the boundaries between units, creating semi-public spaces for communication between neighbors, residents, and visitors.