Tea House in Oyodo, Tent Tea House (大淀の茶室（テントの茶室）)
Oyodo, Kita-ku, Osaka
Sources checked October 2026
- Year
- 1988
- Architect
- Tadao Ando
- Type
- Tea house
- Access
- Demolished in 1994
Built in 1988 in Oyodo, in Osaka's Kita ward, this is the latest of Tadao Ando's three tea houses in Oyodo. Made only of a thin steel frame, a glass floor, a canopy and synthetic-fabric walls that roll up, it was perched on the roof ridge of a two-storey building. It was demolished in 1994.
History
This tea house is the last of a series of three gathered under the title "Tea House in Oyodo": the veneer tea house (1985), the concrete-block tea house (1986) and the tent tea house (1988). The 1988 pavilion was demolished in 1994.
Architecture
The pavilion consisted only of a thin steel frame, a glass floor and a canopy, with "walls" of synthetic fabric that could be rolled up. It sat on the roof ridge of a two-storey building in a dense part of Osaka. This small structure answered the energy of the surrounding city while holding itself apart from the urban disorder below.
Oyodo, Kita-ku, Osaka
