Backyard teahouses for meditation, guest cottage, homeoffice
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- When a Silicon Valley executive asked architect Robert Swatt to design teahouses for his backyard, Swatt wasn't sure where to begin, but his client explained that he wanted one for tea, one for life and one for work.
Swatt created 8 or 9 models trying to determine the ideal shape for these tiny houses and finally settled on the simplest design. All glass with steel and concrete for support, each tea house floats over the landscape. Cantilevered in place, the buildings help preserve the delicate root systems of the surrounding native oaks.
Swatt says they've received many requests to recreate these nearly transparent structures, even as stand-alone tiny houses, and he says it could work as a modern prefab. "We could do something like this, if you keep it down to something you could drive on the highway and you could lift into place with a crane, you could probably do that and probably save a lot of money too by building it in a factory."
Swatt Miers Architects: www.swattmiers.com
Original story: faircompanies.c...
That table and view in the final teahouse is awesome, almost like an art room more than an office. I feel a creative mood just looking at it :)
Incredible ! I think if you lived in a place like that you wouldn’t worry about how much work you got done .
Architects can be extremely arrogant and self indulgent talking about their work, he was very humble and proud, great to see.
These are breath-taking.
But, despite hearing it mentioned twice that organic debris on the skylights is welcomed as part of the ambiance, still, I notice that those yards and yards of glass are pristine-clean.
Definitely not a house for someone who hates washing windows, lol.
With the kind of budget accompanying these, washing your own windows is of no concern.
woah! THIS is my favourite
amazing. Please have more of this types of architecture.
I'd love to live there but I'd have to give up throwing stones
One thing you channel has thought me is that, with an abundance of money anything is possible.
The *other* thing your channel has taught me is that aesthetically inspired, expertly crafted and splendidly executed dwellings are neither easy nor cheap to conceive and build.
Maaaan... what I'd give to live in a place like that. Too bad happiness in this gorgeous form is for the wealthy.
Self made wealthy people are just people who found a way of doing things for lots of other people which they value. You could become a self made expert in most things and do that if you tried hard
Give up 10 years on off shore oil rig. You’ll have enough for this
@@romancandlefight1144 But not everybody can.
romancandlefight ... only 4% of US population become millionaires and it’s a lower % rate for the working class person. Most wealthy people have inherited it and have hidden their wealth offshore! It’s a talking point of the elite so the “regular” people stay hopeful, stay oblivious and don’t vote to raise taxes on the wealthy ... or vote them out! Not to mention the 100’s of thousands of people homeless in America. Btw the tea house are exquisite.
Beautiful tea house !!!!!
It is very tranquil and beautiful but, I was surprised there is no genkan that allows for the transformation from outside to inside literally and mindfully.
This is absolutely perfect!
Beautiful!
i feel relaxed just looking at it
Cool, and these work well with this much glass, but a glass house is not as cool to live in as to look at, people think they want it but after a while you feel like you're living in a fishbowl. There's a big difference between cool to look at and comfortable to live in.
This video is very relaxing
Absolutely beautiful
amazing beautiful
Absolutamente exquisito
Beautiful buildings. I just want to know who cleans the windows?
You
nature views are scientifically proven to increase productivity.
you would get work done in there, minus the headaches.
so great :)))
I need this technology.
No kitchen or dining area? No laundry area?
JZWALZ51 ROBIN. Its not a house its a purpose built tea room and office in his backyard
@@MB-qw1eb Well, now THAT makes sense! Thank you!
Asome home
Spiders in the bed come fall.
One of the best home idea I've ever seen. I would love to live there. It's so connected to nature it feels like you live in it
Kirsten, nice find! Absolutely awe-inspiring design & architecture, but really the surrounding area make the teahouses stand out even more.Thanks for the upload!
Very similar to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (1945-51) and Phillip Johnson's Glass House (1949). I like this a little better. Having the three functions in three separate buildings makes it a little more functional, and the concrete cores provide better grounding. The forested and bushy hillside landscape offers some shade and privacy. The Farnsworth House is so disdainful of the environment that it only reluctantly allows its feet to touch the ground. It also ignorantly sits on a flood plain, whereas it could easily have been sited on higher ground. It got flooded as a result. The Glass House sits on a manicured lawn, but appears uncomfortable doing so. Neither one offers enough privacy to actually live in. Obviously, without kitchen facilities this isn't a complete home, it's only a retreat from a larger home devoted to entertaining. Thus, it is more frankly honest about the impracticality of its minimalism for true residential use.
simple, not too large, small embellishments, strong build yet delicate and modest, respect for the surroundings, respect for the soul... just beautiful. you are lucky kirsten.
let's not worry about what to call them/what they are called. just enjoy them!
How have I missed this gem? It’s beautiful.
When he said "There is tea" and pointed at the shelves over the counter sink I thought, "No, there ARE teas." // The pavilions are a nice balance of concrete, steel and glass with unfinished wooden floors. I wish there had been some footage of them at night. Outside lighting in the trees? // Those skylights could have been designed to clean themselves with rain runoff. As they are now, how do they handle water collecting in their frames?
This is a Mies Van Der Rohe Glass House, pitched as traditional Japanese. The entire theme and philosophy is what Mies Van Der Rohe intended, using glass to blend into nature. It's strange that he doesn't give him credit. Also, I'd use it to park my 1968 convertible, Ferrari 250 GT California special.
Phillip Johnson
very cool but i dont think i could get any work done ..lol. :P
Is the glass earthquaked proofed? I would also take my shoes off like Japanese tradition but maybe the couple left their shoes on for the interview.
TEA HOUSE 2
I sleep easily, no conscience to trouble me, no worries to keep me awake. If I ache, I will ring for the masseuse. Sometimes I get tense, when my many underlings do not instantly anticipate my every move.
I sleep in this bed with various trophy wives, who I replace once they start to show some wear. I sleep in this bed and sometimes I sire offspring. The line must go on, I suppose. Only I don't think about them that much, except in a secondary narcissistic kind of way, but it is difficult to empathize with them, to contemplate their lives and futures. I suppose I must father several, because competition will be increasingly difficult in the future, and not all of them will make the cut, most will eventually fall off this island of wealth I have built.
This is just a simple tea house. Just a bed. Just a soaking tub. Just a shower and toilet and probably bidet. Just a tea house more luxurious than 99.9% of the homes in the first world. Tea house are to contemplate what is beautiful in nature. The cult of the market that has served me so well is destroying nature, best to have glass on all four sides, even for when you sleep. Contemplate it while you can, while it's still here.
Was it intended to sound like American Psycho? Cause it nailed it.
The Botanical Garden in Portland, Oregon has a BEAUTIFUL Tea room!!
Love the concept of the tea house. Less technology is good in my books. Great design
TEA HOUSE 3
A tea house for work. Oxymoronic? Well, I don't actually get my hands dirty, not physically. Meditation is all well and good, nature is pretty enough, but these aren't the sort of foci that allow you to build improved tea houses are they? We sit at my table, see how we have recycled the spare building materials, and we determine ways to crush, control and dominate as many other people as possible, because that is how wealth is built. You can't have glass tea houses without putting other people out of their homes.
You can't own nature without destroying nature. The play of the leaf shadows on the walls keeps me mentally refreshed.
But I'm going to have to do something about the blood and feathers on the glass.
I love your comment. I was sort of thinking something along those lines.
Instant love .. i really like the result, and also the concept idea's..
He have a lot of time and money. Jus to build a house . jus to have his tea.
I was about to write the same thing :-). He must be really bored !!!
He made a whole house..... to serve tea and have conversation
I know: what kind of a beast builds a house to have a talk over tea! Lol
A _quiet_ conversation.
Because he can.
Jeng Johnnie bruh... u right... I need to check my head
Hey bruh, my head is always confusing, may need to have some tea and meditation at that kind of place.
Merry X'mas and Happy New Year from TAIWAN.
Using the word, 'teahouse' in the title earns you a thumbs down.
What do they do to prevent birds killing themselves by flying into all that grass because they think its a clear path though the house? Must be quite a toll on the birdlife?!
You could post "keep off the grass"signs...
This concept is fascinating. After all the videos I watched on domestic architecture and alternative housing this one remains very compelling!
I would have loved to see it at night. Great idea. Thanks!
I think he needs a channel for the wires. Why you look at them from the window it is very distracting.
It's wabi sabi
They’re beautiful and I love them! I can’t help but wonder if birds fly into the glass. It would be sad to build a beautiful structure that allows you to enjoy nature that would harm wildlife. I hope this isn’t the case! Does anyone know if it’s an issue?
It happens.
So great to see more detail from these tea houses! I bought the "CoastModern" documentary DVD set from Canada after seeing it on TV in Australia, and these tea houses were featured in it. (Brilliant double DVD set, by the way, if you like mid-century modern architecture-I have watched the DVDs many times since buying it, I never tire of it. Thank you so much, Kirsten, for uploading this!!
Now put it on *Wheels*....lol
Robert's okay with calling them teahouses or whatever as long as the client pays well.
Fantastic space in nature. Glass walls in such a beautiful location, just wow. :)
amazing, just guessing how's insulation on different seasons.
Haha, It is a beautiful ...erh ... place, but when he mentioned wabi sabi I had to laugh! Taking the definition that Wabi Sabi has to do with acceptance/appreciation of: asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, and change/decay etc.. But I think there are few tea/gardenhouses that are less elaborate, luxurious and perfect built than this..
So does the owner not get that a tea house is a specific thing? I mean, don't get me wrong, they're cool spaces, but they're not tea houses.
I really am enjoying this interpretation of tea houses. I was contemplating a tea- summer house and shed combination. I have a restricted budget so have been inspired to build it myself. It will be mostly timber frame.
Funny that the property owner, just their idea of “ teahouse” becomes the subject . We know nothing of the owners idea, even the designer still doesn’t understand what the definition of teahouse is, to himself, or the owner.
Stunning in its simplicity. Beautiful. And Perfect.
Non c'è Soluzione Architettonica più Vincebte del Modernismo Minimal...."Total Landscape " .....che convive nell'ntima esistenza quotidiana.....un Architettura di tutto Rispetto che interagisce con l'Uomo e la Natura......Finalmente Abbiamo Capito che i "Muri" in fondo non Raccontano Niente......Eccellente lo Sviluppo Tecnoco / Formale.....Mi Piace👍💖
Покажите мне Его как он моет Єти окна ??? Но стол с Броне-пластиной заслуживает внимания!)
Must be nice and cool in hot summer days, I like it. I'd probably sleep in there. A meditation dorm, how cool is that!
Architecture is basically a container of something - I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
I always enjoy watching these videos. They give me loads of ideas.
Such a cool place; love that table!
Ex Machina a brilliant movie - in a brilliant house.
This Tea House reminds me of this breath-taking movie and i love it!
Ironic that these wonderful structures are designed to blend into the natural surroundings... and how they 'disappear into the background'... with no mention of the birds that will die or have already died as a result of the 'invisible' exterior walls. Perhaps there should've been a burial moat dug out along the perimeter... but for sure, the sound of birds smacking against the indiscernible panes of glass can't be conducive to meditation! Just saying, the nod that the architect gives to 'nature', in light of this certain contradiction, rings hollow with such disregard to it.
Hey guys I really think you should upgrade your microphones or your audio editing process... the video is awesome but your audio quality is kind of awful.
You know when someone says 'Wide-Flanged Beams' instead of 'I-Beams' they know what they are talking about. Huge pet peeve of mine, I-Beam....
There are a few elements I would want to change if this were my place. Get rid of the baseboard heaters and replace it with a radiant system in the floor and possible both concrete walls. The electrical, change the white screwless decors devices to gray and relocating them to be more hidden unlike the one 18” above the desk in the first tea house. Hide the conduit entering the concrete upright on the exterior. Change the switching to a single 5-button Radio RA2 device at the entrance and use your smart phone or device to control the lighting loads. Also, what are those ceiling light fixtures? Are they a line voltage MR16 lamp, or are they low voltage LED?
really beautiful- these little y/not so little cubes , but teahouses they aren’t / i wonder how you are supposed to clean all the glass?
Si van a dañar el video con un montón de letras, que además en ocasiones ni se pueden leer porque están blanco sobre blanco, por favor que sean en Español los subtítulos.
stunning, wonder what the carbon footprint on a vacation house built on multi-layered, over glazed "nature house" is....... :P
Feel better now?
I like the designs and his idea. I would like to built these in my backyard.
So beautiful... But the acoustics is terrible, birds will fly right into the walls, and you can't really stay there more than a few hours because there's nowhere to actually cook at.
Love this house. One of my favorites. I wonder if one of these would work in the right spot in Vermont? Probably no way to insulate well enough but maybe with a glass wall away from the wind.
You should have asked him about the type of glass. Is it custom made? What's the full height of such glass planel? Some glass panels are retractable. Is it a pation door? Where did he purchase them?
just a very modern cabin ... now the focus is the house 2nd is nature.
but its stiil amazing to see.
Regardless of the tea houses (not my cup of tea) this is one nice architect to talk to, very down to earth and unpretentious...
Exactly what I need CAN THE TEAHOUSES BE FABRICATED?
I Love this!! Just my kinda thing
Truly beautiful connection to nature, but at the cost of how many birds lives,as it appears to invite them to fly right through.
Dave - I, having two medium size glass windows, know exactly what your referring to. Breaks my heart three/four times a year. I put up a simple string of reflectors (one per window) which has helped. But this project would require a definite design solution, not something hacked together like mine.
Anyway, Swatt Miers; congratulations - Wonderful solution / Remarkable results.
I could live here , I wouldnt mind living here anyway :)
when the rich goes natural. Expensive and perfect.
If this was filmed 5yrs ago it still remains a stunning evergreen concept.... delivering the harmony with nature...beautifully crafted..
Far from distractions that influence our peace of mind..⭐
It would be ok if you do not need a kitchen to prepare food, or do not need a laundry room to wash your clothes.
Larry Ellison loves Japanese culture, bet it's him.
Listen to this NPR story www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/17/273045696/diy-houses-in-the-internet-age-some-assembly-required
Architectural schools should have a one or two-semester course named "Glass Houses" :) The glass houses had been brought into the world of architecture in the 50's and they will never leave the face of the earth as far as we live there. So, better educate the creators and the builders to be as good as possible in dealing with that delicate architectural assignment :)
Love the structures, and, cringe every time he says Teahouse. Again love the structures. Teahouses are small out of modesty, A concept sadly lost on the client. I feel.
Nothing was lost on the client. The architect emphasizes @2:41 that it was not executed as a "Teahouse" in the traditional sense. The term--in this context--is meant more as a placeholder to describe the general use and feel of the structure that the owner was striving towards: a place for meditation or savoring both tea and nature.
Oh i see that takashi Murakami ”painting” in the third Tea house:)
Like the work table. Interesting design. Where is the kitchen teahouse?
Sugoi!!
How many dead birds are these structures responsible for each year?
I think the 3 rooms are gorgeous, but as tea houses, I think that's stretch.
I am leaving in a couple of weeks to go build a home like this in South America
Amazing!!!!!! That's my dream. I will, eventually. Where in South America? 😁 I'm from Colombia🇨🇴
British Guyana, my Ex wife was Colombian we had a great relationship. What part are you from?
@@eliakimbenishchayil More in the Andes. I'm half Inca indigenous & Colombian. Villavicencio more exactly, west of Bogota :) Sorry about your ex wife, hope things will get better between both of you.
All the best
Karina
karina Gomez we remain friends, I am an anthropologist and culture fascinates me, I meet some Mayan women in Chichén Itzá Mexico when I went to see the pyramids they still spoke their original language.
For me to do this I'd need the windows to have an electronic dimming film to make it transparent to opaque like a window in a Boeing 787. Or Motorized ceiling retracting window shade/blind. Aesthetically I think the Shades/Blinds would look nicer but for space saving the dimming film/gel whatever fits the bill nicer. I personally would choose either one what ever my contractor suggested but the idea of multiple "tea" houses for specific reasons is brilliant and I'm sure it could work on flattish land too. Each house could be on it's own solar system making it easier to work with, and if one house needed extra it could draw from the unused power of the other houses. Water and sewage would just require the water to split off to the houses.
Surely he did not think about birds welfare with those windows.
Interesting comment . In New Zealand our beautiful pigeon is endangered and one factor is flying into windows .Anyone know of a solution .
I would like one for Christmas. Or my birthday. Or just because I could afford one. Which I can't.😔
I often wonder if those who can afford to realize their dreams are ever truly grateful, every day for what they have.🤔
I'd be happy with a Househouse. Dang some folks got houses for 'tea'??? Silicone Valley money huh... must be nice.
In the beginning, I was turned off because I thought the floor had cracks open to the ground below, but then saw a baseboard heater under the desk and realized this was not the case. The skylight above was sublime. Really nice spaces.
if prefab off-site...perhaps using shipping containers, or sized like containers so moving up and down the highway would be easy, and permit-free (for over-sized loads).