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Built on a bank above a small brook, the Teahouse was designed as a temporary structure to provide shelter and a place for meditation on an undeveloped wooded lot. The Teahouse was framed using straight saplings selectively cleared from the property, and sided with unfinished pine boards. The side facing the brook was left open and screened in, while a section of the roof opposite was designed to be raised with system of pulleys. The 16 x 16 foot structure was supported by sapling poles only at its four corners, so as to tread lightly on the ground. A live maple tree grows through the interior, breaking out through the roof.
