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Glass Tea House - KOU-AN revisits the very roots of Japanese culture through, and transcending time and space. This glass made teahouse does not feature traditional scrolls or Ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement, the usual embellishments associated with a teahouse. Instead, by using glass, the resulting architecture delights and confounds the eye, creating a glistening water surface under the shower of natural light, with light refracted by a crystal prism sculpture turning into a rainbow of ‘flowers made of light’. In the absence of physical components, this ‘architecture of light’ reaches poetic and thought-provoking dimensions.
Unlike the traditional Japanese teahouse which is often described as a closed microcosm, Glass Tea House - KOU-AN is composed of glass, and therefore shows different expressions with the influence of surrounding environment.
traditional scrolls Ikebana