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Choui Fong Tea Café is located in the area of Choui Fong tea plantation where is covering with a number of huge hills.
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Instead of locating the tea café on the hilltop, the architect decided to lay the buildings hidden in the hill but outreach to take the view of plantation.
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The idea is to keep the hill top view where the building rooftop would then be a 360-degree viewpoint of the plantation.
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Here at the rooftop, in addition to the natural atmosphere of the plantation, the visitors can do observe the farmers’ activity, tea leaves ‘hand pick’ harvesting during the day.
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The main building is composed of three buildings; they are floated and outreached from different viewpoints.
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The functional areas included dining zone, café, teashop, and toilets. Scale and proportion of them are various and depended on those usage of each building.
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The structure is challenged point, we can see they are floating when we look at them from the foot hill and only one pile appears to bear the entire building.
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The retaining wall at the back is set into a distance of the building to create an extra space for the green courtyard to provide shade and shadow in this area.
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There is another separated building of toilets for visitors at the parking lot; this is to alleviate the visitor circulation during the high season.
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Same as with the main building, this toilet building is also hidden under the hill and also composed with stone and green courtyard for shady. Source by Idin Architects.
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- Location: District Maechan, Thailand
- Architect: Idin Architects
- Principal: Jeravej Hongsakul, Rubporn Sukatup, Eakaluk Sirijariyawat, Supachai Phiromrach
- Managing Director: Jeravej Hongsakul
- Interior Architect: Idin Architects
- Structural engineer: Pakanut Siriprasopsothorn
- Owner: Shanya Wanasphitaksakul
- Area: 1,240 sq.m
- Year: 2015
- Photographs: Spaceshift Studio, Courtesy of Idin Architects
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