Final Poster

My aim to this project was to re think retail and the retail experience. I developed the idea of interactively making your own personalized tea. Right from picking your herbs from the garden to brewing and enjoying it while relaxing with surrounding garden. I did so through the use of my spatial generator term rows- which i got from the work rose- thinking about how they are planted and grow. My spatial generator is reflected in the layout of my tea house and also in elements such as the materials used and windows through focusing on the line work. Ihi and Wehi are associated with physical and emotional behaviour, both are being stimulated and exercised in this retail experience through the touch,  smell and taste of the herbal teas to the relaxing spiritual feel the space provides. I wanted this tea house to be special through the way the garden was inside, and intimate with the small space. However If this project was to be developed further the thought of expansion out onto the pavement and allowing and indoor outdoor flow could be investigated.

Presentation Poster

Blurb on poster reads:

The Tea Rose is an interactive tea house that allows customers to be able to pick and choose their own herbs for their teas from the surrounding plants. They then brew and drink their personalized tea at their table while experiencing relaxation through the encompassing garden environment.

Notes from presentation:

- Change key to subtitles
- Push back texture on elevation
- Add something to show entrance on plan
- Overlay with sketch more
- Line work back onto perspectives
- Look at size of perspectives

Presentation Images

Plan

Front Elevation

Perspective One

Perspective Two

Perspective Three

Reflective ceiling plan

Sectional Perspective

Inside The Tea House

Showing how customers relax at the tables and make their own teas. Herbs provided at the tables and in the surrounding garden. People picking and choosing their own herbs and flavors. With the Built in Hot tap for instant boiled water, being protected from touting with frame work incorporated. having the tea pots, tea cups and all cutlery delivered to your seat. 

Indoor trees and Plants Used In Tea House

Indoor trees to use amongst the tee house garden. Having a mixture of colour and scale. Customers able to use lemon of citrus trees to add to their teas. Herbs also planted amongst the garden to give the  customers a new retail experience as they find their own herbs to use.  

NZ Tea tree

Dwarf weeping cherry tree

Dwaf Citrus tree

Dwarf NZ flax

fiddle leaf fig tree 

Hybrid Tea Rose

Models

Furniture model made from MDF and wire reflecting the wood and steel. Showing how the materials work and look together.

Wire models reflecting the garden in my tea house. Green wall, flowers, small trees and herbs. 

Materials

I have decided on these materials for my final tea house.

vintage style steel use to contrast and work well with the wooden tables for a more simplistic look.

White washed wooden for the flooring giving it a rustic look, making it not stand and take the focus off  the surrounding garden. 

Dark wooden tables working with dark steal.