Japanese Tea Ceremony architects

Japanese Tea Ceremony architects

The true spirit of Japanese architecture can be found in the Japanese house and the sukiya style of residential construction. Japanese houses come in many shapes and sizes? but for 400 years the majority of them have been built in the sukiya style. Anyone interested in the architecture of Japan should become familiar with this vernacular. The sukiya style Japanese home is a refined and graceful living space that employs elements of the Japanese tea house. Characteristics of the sukiya style include delicate proportions? the ample use of natural materials? the integration of interior and exterior spaces? and a general sense of quiet elegance with rustic overtones. In the traditional Japanese house? moderation is of key importance. In addition to slender wood elements and the lack of ostentation? the sukiya living environment strives? not to overwhelm? but rather to harmonize with the human scale and human sense perception.

Traditional Japanese architecture style? creative interior designs and exterior designs that bring the authentic atmosphere of simplicity? tranquility? style and grace in design into the modern age while maintaining the traditional architectural concepts of Sukiya styled architecture of Japanese interior and exterior design.

From materials to craftsmanship? Sukiya Japanese Architects maintains the style? sensitivity and formality of true tradition of Japanese architectural design.

From handcrafted tatami mats? shoji screens? interior design? aged woods to a careful eye on details brings the true art of Sukiya tsukuri to life. Dedicated to the authentic masters of "chanoyu" (Japanese tea ceremony room)?Sukiya Japanese Architects builds to keep the tradition alive.+

Enclosed as it was by clay walls? the tea room was a novel structure in Japan? with its tradition of open living spaces historically dictated by the conditions of summer. In its closed appearance? one senses somehow that it may also be an expression of something non-Japanese. At the same time? the four elements of society? ceremony? religion? and art were added to an extremely mundane and quotidian act? thus creating the extraordinary environment of Cha no Yu? the tea ceremony.

The methods behind the construction of the tea room have had an effect that extended even to home architecture? creating a new style. This is the Sukiya style? a type of architecture best exemplified by the Shoin of the Katsura Detached Palace. This style of architecture involved taking as its base the shoin building style used in residential architecture up to that point and introducing into each of the structural elements the materials and methods used in the building of tea rooms. As such? the style excelled from a design standpoint? and it can be said to represent the greatest success of Japanese architecture in relation to interiors.

Shoin architecture up to that point had been generally formalized? involving adding a concave curve to roofs as was done with temples and shrines and covering everything with decoration? from such indoor structural components as press boards? floors? shelves? and the special built-in desk to metal fittings such as transom work? door knobs? and covers for nail ...