The design of Japanese Tea House and Conferencing facility focused on finding common ground between Indian and Japanese cultural outlook; and reconciling functions, site conditions and availability of materials & craftsmanship, with the proportion, aesthetics and essence of tea houses.The key to the project was discovering the concept of Wabi Sabi - finding beauty in the incomplete, imperfect, a philosophy that deeply influences Japanese aesthetic, notably traditional tea houses. We chose to import a few elements - shoji paper and tatami mats, and build the rest on site - interpreting the original Tea house elements in terms of what was locally available, making that a fundamental determinant of the design. We engaged the ‘outside’ by planning the landscape as a series of journeys with pauses in pathways and playful elements in the greens.