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This winter @zujapan is helping with a ่ถๅฎค (chashitsu) traditional Japanese tea house in the backyard of Akiya Collective's makerspace led by resident Liechtensteiner artist Mike Heidegger who has studied miyadaiku style carpentry in Japan. The Akiya makerspace had been abandoned for years causing environmental and economic impact to our area. With this custom artisanal tea house, we are not only beautifying the area we are bringing huge economic stimulus to our local economy! We want share our progress over the past month for the @octant community so here are some clips from the past month. Make sure to scroll and to see the house take shape! Weโre using locally harvested lumber, traditional Japanese hand tools, and some help from our neighbors to create the structure, walls, and shingles of the ่ถๅฎค. Here Mike is debarking beams with an axe to prepare them as the main housing posts.
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Here Mike is planing a beam for the foundation as a stable surface for construction of the house
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What is a home without a cat? Kitty cuddle breaks in winter are a necessity. Lim-san is twinning with a stray cat we've adopted named Mikan ๐
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Back to our beloved chad woodworker Mike chopping a girthy tree trunk into delicate planks to use as tiling on our ่ถๅฎค tea house Big blocks really do make you happy ๐
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And Mike overseeing his new intern @kiba turning his rough cuts into baby smooth tiles, with a Japanese Kanna hand tool to help preserve the wood. These wood tiles will last up to 30 years protecting our house without any chemical treatments! Talk about sustainability /regen
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