The Beauty Of Zen—a Preliminary Study On The Design Of Modern Tearoom Space

Zen is a thinking way of Zen Buddhism. Zen tea is a cultural level that meditates Zen while drinking tea and is also an agreement with Zen and the tea in spiritual level. Zen mind and the teaism have been soaked and blended mutually in all ages and achieved a taste that Zen is the tea and the tea is Zen, which is harmonious, esteem, quiet and silent. The present paper starts from the definition of Zen, and researches on the aesthetic taste and space of Zen Buddhism, adopting literature review, crossover study, psychological analysis, case method, exploratory study and empirical analysis. This thesis studies the emotion claim of Zen space and the expressional situation of contemporary eastern architecture, then focuses on the space aspect to realize the spiritual standard and experience the representation and emotion of the architecture from-the-outer-to-the-inner deeply. Based on the study of space between Zen and the tea, the author probes to the function of Zen in the tea house and discusses its practical significance. In the large and medium-sized cities with fast living, people are looking forward to self and pressure release. The design of tea house will take advantage of the effect of Zen and make it not only a tea house, but a rest harbor for people's soul. The present thesis elaborates and validates the space theory by means of analysis of the influncence of Zen architectural environment on people's physical and mental state. The author explores the integration of Zen and the design of tea house and tries to establish a modern tea house with Zen style for people to relieve the pressure and purify the soul.