03-12-2015

Tea Pavilion, architecture of tranquillity by o9_architecture

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An enchanted location requiring an architectural operation that considers the landscape and the harmony required for a tea ceremony.



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Tea Pavilion, architecture of tranquillity by o9_architecture An enchanted location requiring an architectural operation that considers the landscape and the harmony required for a tea ceremony. The architects from Italian firm, o9_architecture have created a really special pavilion on the Brescia side of Lake Garda.



Lake Garda is a true landscape gem with particular challenges for anyone designing here.
When the young designers from studio o9 architecture, - named directly after the site of their studio constructed in a decommissioned workshop of Brescia - took on the assignment by the BeQui holistic centre to create a small pavilion in its privately-owned parkland, a range of design aspects needed to be considered.


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First of all, it was necessary to encourage introspection, which meant removing any visual connection with the lake, which can be heard but not seen from inside the construction. Something very rare in our image-dominated and views-oriented world! 




The designers from o9_architecture meet the needs of the client with a light timber frame where the access ramp to reach this green corner becomes an integral part of the architecture. Walking along the chestnut wood ramp, as a user you mentally prepare yourself for the tea ceremony, leaving behind the normal distractions of everyday life.



The pavilion is covered with thin larch wood slats, giving the interior that sense of protection you need for the tea ceremony and at the same time enabling engagement with the natural environment. 
Here, nature is not only spectacular, it is also part of the project as a temporal component, expressed through the larch wood, which will change colour over time and that can be easily removed and replaced.



“Tea Pavilion” by o9_architecture with architect Paolo Mestriner on the banks of lake Garda is a symbol of an interiority that we could define as empathic because its lightness and poetry - in the finest holistic tradition - is a constant reminder that everything in our world is connected.

Christiane Bürklein

Project by o9 architecture with Paolo Mestriner, completed with the participants of #w9_01:
Barbara Bergamaschi, Annamaria Caronna, Marco Faravelli, Silvia Faravelli, Linda Ferrero, Federico Olivari, Silvia Pozzi, Thomas Tellarini, Andrea Temponi, Francesca Tiberi.
Co-Operator Architect: Arch. Mariapia Gervasi
Supplier: Guerra Imerio SRL
Customer: BeQui
Immagini: o9 architecture

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