Interior

CommuniTEA

Year: 2022

Greyscale perspective of the tea bar: a curved counter with seated guests, shelves of cups, and planting along the window.

CommuniTEA is a group project located in the Old Bathhouse of Antwerp, Belgium. It is a meeting place and an oasis of calm that gives the former bathhouse a new use without any irreversible interventions. The project focuses on circular collaboration between people, climate, biodiversity, and nature. Herbs and plants feature heavily throughout, grown both inside and outside the building, and are used in the self-sufficient teahouse and for their healing properties in the bathhouse.

Perspective of a cylindrical room raised on curved stepped plinths inside the bathhouse.

Sectional model of the bathhouse on a white table, an acrylic panel with the project text standing in front of it.

Sectional model showing the pool level below and the planted tea room above.

In collaboration with: Aïn Haesendonck and Chiara Dhaeyer

For inquiries, write to hi@jadehuculak.design

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A thin steel-rod object of interconnected triangles resting on a reflective sheet on the concrete floor of an industrial hall.