Length - 02:50 Award-winning kitchen and home designer, Fu-Tung Cheng shares how he created some uniquely shaped concrete countertops on one of his projects. He designed and fabricated the interior of the Teance Tea Shop in Berkeley, Calif. Fu-Tung feels that design in really the most important tool from the beginning of a project to the end of a project. The tea shop's original structure (the shell) is a linear, boxcar shape. In order to make the space more interesting he incorporated the idea of the circle. This was done to make the central and most important space in the shop, the tea bar, very communal. This area has a feeling of community and intimacy. Concrete is the key to this project's success as it is one of the few building materials that can be formed into any shape. The tea bar's shape is modeled after a traditional tea pot. Surrounding the central concrete tea bar is concentric circles in the floors and other concrete countertops. This reinforces the idea of the circle. It also effectively draws the customer in from the entryway to the center of the space. On the floor the self-leveling concrete is frame with a circular brass ring. On the walls there is a grey concrete countertop that is curved in the same arc as the floor and central tea bar. Fu Tung uses the circle and shape to nestle customers into important space, the tea bar tasting area.
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