惠明茶工坊-Huiming-Tea-Space
北京
A rural tea production facility precedent demonstrating the integration of perforated screen walls and sculptural roof light monitors within a terraced agricultural landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The varied orientations and angles of the sculptural roof monitors break the strict monotony of the long horizontal facade.
Materials
- perforated-concrete-block
- stone
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- perforated-block-screen
- roof-monitors
- stone-terrace-base
- long-horizontal-mass
Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- rural
- regionalist
Visual tags
- rural-architecture
- agricultural
- perforated-facade
- daylight-monitors
- terraced-landscape
- Geometry
- Linear horizontal volume set upon a raised stone-faced terrace, punctuated rhythmically along the roofline by sculptural vertical light monitors.
- Facade system
- Perforated concrete masonry screen wall alternating with full-height glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam concrete frame with non-loadbearing masonry screen walls on a raised retaining base.
- Spatial scale
- Large horizontal footprint dwarfed by the expansive landscape, with human figures appearing as small scale references.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast twilight or early morning blue-hour illumination casting even, shadowless light across the rural landscape and facade.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, melancholic rural calm under a heavy, overcast blue sky.
- Environmental context
- Rural tiered tea plantation slope under an overcast sky, flanked by mature evergreen trees and distant hills.
- Spatial experience
- The long facade reads as a screened threshold between terraced agricultural fields and the internal workshop spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal mass interrupted by the steady vertical rhythm of structural bays and terminating in individual skewed roof monitors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular infrastructure
- Program
- Tea processing workshop and agricultural workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- perforated-concrete-block, stone, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- perforated-block-screen, roof-monitors, stone-terrace-base, long-horizontal-mass
- Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular, rural, regionalist
- Visual tags
- rural-architecture, agricultural, perforated-facade, daylight-monitors, terraced-landscape
- Geometry
- Linear horizontal volume set upon a raised stone-faced terrace, punctuated rhythmically along the roofline by sculptural vertical light monitors.
- Facade system
- Perforated concrete masonry screen wall alternating with full-height glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam concrete frame with non-loadbearing masonry screen walls on a raised retaining base.
- Spatial scale
- Large horizontal footprint dwarfed by the expansive landscape, with human figures appearing as small scale references.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast twilight or early morning blue-hour illumination casting even, shadowless light across the rural landscape and facade.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, melancholic rural calm under a heavy, overcast blue sky.
- Environmental context
- Rural tiered tea plantation slope under an overcast sky, flanked by mature evergreen trees and distant hills.
- Spatial experience
- The long facade reads as a screened threshold between terraced agricultural fields and the internal workshop spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal mass interrupted by the steady vertical rhythm of structural bays and terminating in individual skewed roof monitors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular infrastructure
- Program
- Tea processing workshop and agricultural workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture