Sloping earthen roof tops waiting area for Japanese tea room by Kurosawa Kawara-Ten

Local studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has completed a waiting area for the Sekiyuan tea room in Chiba, Japan, sheltering it with a textured roof of mortar and soil that will be gradually overgrown with moss.

Named Sekiyuan Waiting Area, the small timber pavilion contains a timber bench and was self-built by Kurosawa Kawara-Ten with the tea room's master, who is also a ceramicist and artist.

The studio's founder, Kenichi Kurosawa, described this DIY approach as part of an attempt to reintroduce...