. Shelter

Project for the Papier Biennal 2026.
Museum Rijswijk, The Hague.






Ephemeral architecture

To host a family around Tea I have designed a space that can be transported and built easily. This family of individuals that belong together because of their relationship with Tea and the connection she brings to humans is spread all over the world. This family of infinit members gather to celebrate and share through the simple ritual of preparing and serving tea.

An ephemeral tea hut constructed with discarded tea rice paper wrappers patchworked with rice glue into a large sheet, then suspended from the space with three long bamboo poles and stainless-steel cables.
Dimensions approximate 8 feet x 8 feet x 9.5 feet high.

The Shelter piece represents many ideals into a larger concept, the rice paper tea wrappers have intrinsic memories, and stories that silently can remeind us of the many people that were involved in the process that took for the tea to be shared:
farmers, pickers, makers, sellers, enthusiasts and guests: the tea family.

Keywords: 
Celebrate
Gather
Share
Family
Ritual
Reuse
Nomadic
Open

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