The black bamboo screen

Plans are for the area behind the tea house to be filled with black bamboo as a screen. This is a critical component to the design, both as a way to create some privacy in the space and to (hopefully) alleviate some of the neighborhood opposition to the design. Black bamboo reaches heights of 12 ft, and the top of the steel beams are about 15 ft, so some of it will be visible to the neighbors. But this is really the best we can do.