Tectonics of innovating aluminum teahouse: Altering aluminum teahouse by means of new timber construction

In 2016, the University of Toyama Faculty of Art and Design celebrated its 10-year anniversary. The anniversary commission chose tea ceremony as the pivoting event with the idea to present the faculty by integrating in-house expertise, it imagined deploying video projection mapping in the teahouse thereby unfolding the aluminum teahouse of the faculty built one decade ago. Yushi Uehara worked on design and construction of this new teahouse. Because the committee decided to use aluminum teahouse that was designed as art installation, the theme of this project has became science of construction in terms of art of design and use. I could only define materiality or newly employed geometry only because I focused on these tectonic aspects of this architecture. I put up hypothesis that a form of architecture is achieved in the process of realizing the art and the plight of the project and examine it at each process of design concretely. While public generally appreciate architecture via modernist credo form follows function, function, I recon, is a temporal phenomenon performed by limited group of users who establish the premise. I inspect congruence of form and its performances beyond such planned period. The author believes that a concise paper on this project can deliver useful knowledge for architectural design of tomorrow.