URBAN FOG POP-UP TEAHOUSE Dalston, London
Designed as a collaboration between four architects and a local cafe, Tina’s We Salute You; Urban Fog was a temporary tea house that sought to echo local culture of transient art. We collaborated to transformed the abandoned garage by designing, building, publishing, and running this spatial installation as a teahouse.
The installation utilizes the depth of the long enclosed site to create a series of thresholds to occupy. The long trajectory of the space is seen as a journey for the body and the eye, like a series of foggy cinematic frames capturing increasing levels of private space. Like entering a lost cloud which has temporarily come to rest in this urban void, figures appear and disappear within the depth of the space and are distorted through light and shadow.