Tea Bar Popup

Architect: Zihan Zhao

Client: Basao

Location: Flexible

Completed: April, 2024

As brands explore the commercial markets of different cities, they are also confronting the uncertainties that come with them. Because of this, more brands are beginning to plan mobile commercial spaces.

These flexible setups work alongside their long-term, fixed stores, offering adaptability in changing environments. The set of installations we designed for BASAO mobile tea bar are a response to this demand.

The entire installation adopts a structural framework made of wood-grain aluminum square tubes. Seats and display units made of wood-grain aluminum panels, complemented by colorful curtains, the brand’s own functional tea cart, and signboards.

Together, they form a sustainable concept project that can be assembled and flexibly transported to adapt to both indoor and outdoor scenarios and varying site dimensions.

A modular tea bar, an installation specifically designed for shifting conditions.

Our precise control over the materials, dimensions, and production costs of the installation aims to convey our studio’s design philosophy of essential minimalism:

To achieve simplification within a well-refined framework, combining the mobility of space with the flexibility of elements, and creating an inspiring commercial space.