When Heytea meets Hangzhou tea-drinking culture, how to present Tea Life style? In consid-eration of walk flow and spatial concepts, nota architects creates a HEYTEA Garden for Hey-tea’s first bakery in Hangzhou . Taking tea garden as space prototype, here tea mountain, tea fields, seats, bakery contrast finely with tea culture by its spatial logic and modeling language.

Hangzhou is a tea production city, where tea also integrates into local civic life. People rest and drink tea in tea shops by tea fields. In this city, tea gardens and tea houses connect closely and interdependently, while the former produce tea and the latter provide space to taste. Drinking tea in tea fields is the most relaxing and primitive way of tea tasting. After a series of exploration on Hangzhou tea culture, Zen of tea garden is defined as the space theme.

▼空间轴测图，the axon