AwareTea is located in Qingguo Alley, a historic street in Changzhou. The alley is along with Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and many celebrities come out from it, which make the alley become so famous. In order to revivify the traditional scenes, the municipal government of Changzhou reserved the main historic architecture while repairing.

The program is implemented in a space with three entries with two courtyards, which is the typical building structure in the region south of the Yangtze River. The space is well- proportioned and layered. The program is so rare because the mottled walls are protected during the decoration process.

▼二进入口，second-entry room

We believe newborn things can truly awake the past. The old and the new are coexistent, complementary, and well-balanced. At the same time, presenting the best view by minimum intervention is the basic principal. So, in order to best coalesce the old and the new, only two boxes are imbedded. The first steel box is imbedded in the northern entrance of the second-entry room. The second is the oak corridor during the second and third entry.