Largely made of glass, KOU-AN is a Japanese tea house designed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka.
“The Japanese reverence for nature, perceptualizing energy, is embedded in the time-honoured Japanese tea ceremony,” said Tokujin. “This installation revisits the very roots of Japanese culture through, and transcending time and space.”
Lacking any embellishments associated with a traditional Japanese tea house such as Ikebana, a Japanese flower arrangement, Tokujin says that the glass installation delights and confounds the eye.
When under the sun, the glass tea house’s crystal prism sculpture refracts natural light, creating a rainbow.
“In the absence of physical components, this ‘architecture of light’ reaches poetic and thought-provoking dimensions,” added Tokujin.
