Tanizaki — Chris Briffa Architects
Photo · Hanna Briffa
An interior pavilion precedent by Chris Briffa Architects showcasing how weathering timber, water features, and shoji-style screens create a meditative garden room.
- What we like about this project
- The large timber screen wall floats partially suspended above a dark metal water basin.
Materials
- weathered-timber
- gravel
- stone
- water
- paper
Visual identifiers
- timber-screen
- water-basin
- shoji-walls
- gravel-floor
Style tags
- minimal
- biophilic
- contemplative
Visual tags
- contemplative
- zen-inspired
- natural-materials
- indoor-garden
- textured
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical composition balancing a heavy vertical timber screen wall over a water basin against stepped platform levels and a grid-paneled shoji backdrop.
- Facade system
- Interior shoji-style timber grid partition with translucent panels.
- Structural guess
- Suspended timber partition wall anchored to overhead structure with slender steel supports.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled interior pavilion, with the suspended timber wall floating just above the water and gravel floor.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused light filters through the vertical shoji-style screen wall, illuminating the interior with even, warm tones.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, grounded in natural textures and soft diffused daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior courtyard or pavilion space designed to evoke a contemplative Japanese-inspired garden room.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from coarse-grained timber and reflective water across a gravel bed to elevated stone-like platforms framed by glowing paper-like screens.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical wood grain of the hanging screen echoes the vertical mullions of the shoji backdrop.
- Style reading
- Contemporary Japanese-inspired minimal interior
- Program
- Residential courtyard or meditative interior hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- weathered-timber, gravel, stone, water, paper
- Visual identifiers
- timber-screen, water-basin, shoji-walls, gravel-floor
- Style tags
- minimal, biophilic, contemplative
- Visual tags
- contemplative, zen-inspired, natural-materials, indoor-garden, textured
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical composition balancing a heavy vertical timber screen wall over a water basin against stepped platform levels and a grid-paneled shoji backdrop.
- Facade system
- Interior shoji-style timber grid partition with translucent panels.
- Structural guess
- Suspended timber partition wall anchored to overhead structure with slender steel supports.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled interior pavilion, with the suspended timber wall floating just above the water and gravel floor.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused light filters through the vertical shoji-style screen wall, illuminating the interior with even, warm tones.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, grounded in natural textures and soft diffused daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior courtyard or pavilion space designed to evoke a contemplative Japanese-inspired garden room.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from coarse-grained timber and reflective water across a gravel bed to elevated stone-like platforms framed by glowing paper-like screens.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical wood grain of the hanging screen echoes the vertical mullions of the shoji backdrop.
- Style reading
- Contemporary Japanese-inspired minimal interior
- Program
- Residential courtyard or meditative interior hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior