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Our Architectural Works #7

東京のオフィスの茶室

東京の高層ビルに、茶室と露地をもつ働く場。
打ち合わせのかたわらに、茶の静けさが流れている。

A planted courtyard with a stone pagoda meets a seating platform, the city faint beyond, work and garden in one Japanese office.

東京の高層ビル、その一フロア。
ガラスと金属に代えて、杉と土壁、畳でしつらえた働く場である。
炉を切った茶室がミーティングの場と隣り合い、飛石づたいに石灯籠と蹲踞をへて席へと向かう。
面皮の柱、麻の葉の組子障子、淡い光の欄間まわりが、独立した茶室のような佇まいを室内に運ぶ。
働き方が問い直されたのちの2022年に整えられ、茶の静けさのなかで言葉と判断をかわすための一室となっている。

A stone well with rope pulley and wooden buckets sits along a corridor lined with horsetail, a stone pagoda beyond.

通り庭の、静かな一本道

石畳の通り庭を挟み、片側に井戸、反対に枯山水とベンチ。

ビルの一フロアに、町家の路地のような時間が流れる。

A tea room at dusk, its sunken hearth laid with utensils and a low latticed window glowing at floor level.

高層ビルで、炉を切る

炉を切った畳の席に自然木の柱が立ち、障子の先にかすかな街の気配。茶の所作と都市が、同じ一室で重なる。

A narrow roji at night, stepping stones passing bamboo fences toward the chashitsu, lit low by a garden lantern.

夜の露地を歩む

飛石と竹垣のあいだを、低い灯りがひとつ。

席へ向かう短い露地が、気持ちを切り替えていく。

Close view of a hand-split timber shingle roof and its copper edge, built indoors as a feat of Japanese architecture.

室内につくる、本物の屋根

手割りの木羽を葺いた屋根が、室内にそのまま架かる。銅の軒と灯りが、夜の陰影を静かに刻む。

  • A long timber bench with round cushions faces a dry garden of rocks and raked gravel, a red curtain at the far end.
  • A stone-paved corridor runs between dry gravel gardens and benches, a street of Japanese architecture on a single floor.
  • A stone-paved passage flanked by a well and a gravel garden with a stone marker, Japanese architecture filling a single high floor.
  • Looking from the corridor toward the rooms, a stone lantern and stepping stones cross a bed of white gravel.
  • A stone well with rope pulley and wooden buckets sits along a corridor lined with horsetail, a stone pagoda beyond.
  • A planted courtyard with a stone pagoda meets a seating platform, the city faint beyond, work and garden in one Japanese office.
  • A tiered stone pagoda stands among greenery in a planted courtyard, beside a glazed wall and a reed blind.
  • A raked gravel garden with a stone marker and a cushioned bench before woven screens, restrained Japanese architecture.
  • An engawa runs past a courtyard garden, with ginkgo-patterned sliding doors framing the rooms, layered Japanese architecture.
  • A gourd-shaped opening in an earthen wall reveals the bamboo lattice behind, beneath a woven bamboo ceiling.
  • Glimpsed between lattice panels, an iron kettle and tea bowls wait on a counter, the tools of chashitsu.
  • Close view of a hand-split timber shingle roof and its copper edge, built indoors as a feat of Japanese architecture.
  • Three woven lattice panels stand open before a timber table, a natural post rising at the right.
  • The cut end of a timber log post meets a beam above woven panels, a joint detail of Japanese architecture.
  • A tea bowl and bamboo whisk rest on a red lacquer tray, with a kettle and ladle set for matcha at the chashitsu.
  • A solid-timber meeting table faces woven lattice screens and a courtyard of horsetail and stone in the Japanese office.
  • A long meeting table on a timber platform set within raked gravel, screened by woven panels, a Japanese office room.
  • A live-edge table and woven-paper chairs before a green-tiled wall and a hanging scroll, a quiet corner of the Japanese office.
  • Woven-paper chairs at a live-edge table beneath a rolled reed blind, with horsetail planting lit along the platform edge.
  • A mizuya preparation alcove lined with shelves of tea bowls, ceramics and bamboo tools under soft light.
  • Close detail of a bamboo reed blind hung above open woven-twig lattice panels.
  • A narrow roji at night, stepping stones passing bamboo fences toward the chashitsu, lit low by a garden lantern.
  • Stepping stones lead along a softly lit garden path at night, a quiet passage of Japanese architecture.
  • A roji garden of stepping stones, a stone lantern and a water basin, framed by reed walls, Japanese architecture brought indoors.
  • Four paper sliding screens below a wave-cut transom, set under a timber-board ceiling.
  • Looking up to a sloped bamboo-and-timber ceiling and an arched opening, the craft of Japanese architecture overhead.
  • The chashitsu opens through paper screens to a hint of the city beyond, a hearth and natural post anchoring the tatami room.
  • A tea room at dusk, its sunken hearth laid with utensils and a low latticed window glowing at floor level.
  • Interior of the chashitsu with a sunken hearth set into the tatami and a natural central post.
  • Tea bowl, whisk and bamboo wares arranged on a lacquer stand before an asanoha screen, ready for chashitsu.
  • Grained timber boards wrap a wall and ceiling around a small square paper window that glows from within.
  • Through a lattice, a hanging scroll and a single flower in a bamboo vase rest in a dim alcove beside a round window.
  • A low window frames a stone lantern in a small inner courtyard garden, seen from the tatami edge.
  • Close view of a timber bench below a glowing asanoha-patterned paper screen, with a slender natural post.
  • A wooden waiting bench beside a stepping-stone path, set for guests arriving at the chashitsu.
  • Seen through a paper-screen opening, a stone well with a rope pulley and wooden buckets stands against an earthen wall.

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