Xiaoye Valley

Xiaoye Valley
Exterior facade and courtyard. Image © Weiqi Jin

XIAOYE VALLEY

AML Design Studio

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Amulong

PHOTOGRAPHS
Weiqi Jin

AREA
850 m²

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Yanqing, China

CATEGORY
Housing

Text description provided by the architects.

There are many houses around Beijing that are too fastidious, too uniform and too fastidious.

Xiaoye Valley
Exterior facade and courtyard. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Public space. Image © Weiqi Jin

Ceramic tile veneer, magenta pink blue, always so selective, this project was originally like this.

Money can't be spent too much, so it is used to wrap up the building with the thorns picked up on the hill, hide in the hill, and shade the sun as well.

Xiaoye Valley
Public space. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Wooden room. Image © Weiqi Jin

Tower house with the remaining scaffolding on the courtyard, pull up the shade net, when the sun comes out, sitting under, looking at the mountains, beautiful.

The owner named his house Xiaoye Valley, but I would like to call it Wild Valley.

Xiaoye Valley
Xiaoye Valley
Black room. Image © Weiqi Jin


Xiaoye Valley
Exterior facade and courtyard. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Exterior facade and courtyard. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Black room. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Silver room. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Black room. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
White room. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Wooden room. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
White room. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Public space. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Exterior facade and courtyard. Image © Weiqi Jin


Xiaoye Valley
Exterior facade and courtyard. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Public space. Image © Weiqi Jin
Xiaoye Valley
Public space. Image © Weiqi Jin


Xiaoye Valley
P1 Plan
Xiaoye Valley
P2 Plan
Xiaoye Valley
Coutyard Plan