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Aroma zen tea club-Hai Kou
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Aroma zen tea club was originally a coffee shop in Qilou Old Street. The coffee culture is ordinary and simple in Hainan. The old peoples here have the habit of drinking coffee every day. This leisure lifestyle appears in every corner of Hainan. Qilou it means "arcade architecture"emerged after the Opium War in 1840. The development of modern Chinese architecture was influenced by Western architecture. The victorian architecture also entered China and became a very characteristic modern commercial and residential architecture, which became popular.
Aroma zen tea club-Hai Kou located at No. 28 Zhongshan Road, the original building was built long time ago.It is not only a history and culture, it still has many peoples lived here. It forms a beautiful view of this Old Street.

The story is complex and changing. This old building retains the scenery of the years, touches the city's texture, and records a glorious memory of the old street. As if stepping into this street and crossing the gate of time and space, you will return to the bright and vigorous. In the process of repairing historical buildings, the original elements of western and Chinese traditional architectural styles, red bricks and blue tiles, artistic windows, beams and arches have been preserved. On this basis, texture lacquer is used, and the decoration is perfect to make the space more simple and pure. An arch with elegant lines, as a visual prelude, takes you back. On the basis of preserving the original classics, through deliberate transformation and design schemes, it has given birth to a "new life" The decoration accessories combines local bamboo weaving and rattan weaving handmade methods. The overall space gives people a state of simplicity, and relaxation.

Agency: Evolution(Beijing) Design Architects Co., Ltd

Understanding our built world as pure hybridization, where any Human settlement is matching with Nature environment to get a space qualification (in a functional, aesthetic or emotional way).
We believe the landscaping, urbanism, architecture, interior design and indoor dressing as a hybrid system ruled by tradition and modern, Asia and Western, operational and appealing, ethical and aesthetics...