Anna’s Garden is a two-story brick house located in Beijing, China, designed in 2021 by Kiki Archi.

Description
Changping District is 30km to the north of Beijing, the scenery of which is completely different from that of an international city. KiKi ARCHi has completed a renovation project within 15 months there. Carrying the happy time of its owner?s childhood in the country, it seeks not the concrete object of memory, but the memory itself.
The bushy mountain and mirror-like lake provide a natural barrier to noise, which attracts the owners a lot. The original 1,300? site contains a large courtyard and a 200? European-style house. This sense of contradiction inspired the team to rethink. After site analysis and discussion, KiKi ARCHi decided to first re-establish the relationship between the house and the landform, which includes multiple dimensions such as the relationship between ?terrain and building?, ?architectural appearance and the surrounding environment?, ?function and the living experience?. Thus, the 8m height difference of the site was fully utilized, and the garden at the lower level was linked with the house at the higher level through the graceful landscape design, which creates a rich visual hierarchy and sets the tone of ?freedom & nature? for the whole project. On the premise of retaining the original architectural structure, the European facade decoration was completely stripped, replaced by simple geometric blocks and r...