The project focus on exploring the possibility of new logics for rural architecture in relation to tea production and consumption. Tea as a significant element has existed in Chinese culture for thousands of years. On one hand, tea as an essential export product has produced countless foreign profit for China in ancient dynasties. On the other hand, tea drinking has developed into a cultural activity which has both ceremonial importance and social implications. The production of tea is an intense manual activity which has not changed much for thousands of years. Its cultivation, harvest, and drinking processes have rich regional diversity. As tea is such an original and long-standing image in China, to some extent, tea can be regarded as a container which carries the Chinese notion of living rule. The final year project will analyze the image of tea in Chinese culture and transform this image into architecture era.
