The building is located in the small mountain village in northern China, The village used to be a military town in Ming and Qing dynasty, a part of Great Wall is also in these village. Our site is at the foot of the Great Wall, at the top of the village.   

Adjustable grating. Image © Bohong Zhai

Architects: Jin Lei

Location: Huailai, China

Other Participants : Shijun Jin, Zhicai Yang, Zhenjun Zhu, Kailu Li

Area: 229.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Bohong Zhai, Lei Jin

New building overlooking the village. Image © Lei Jin

Text description provided by the architects. The building is located in the small mountain village in northern China, The village used to be a military town in Ming and Qing dynasty, a part of Great Wall is also in these village. Our site is at the foot of the Great Wall, at the top of the village.   
elevation of new building. Image © Lei Jin

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new and old face to face. Image © Lei Jin

The old house was built in 1980s, Which we decided to keep, The old house in the middle of the site, only a few meters from the Great Wall, and 10 meters from the south side. This brings difficult for the modification.

house close to the Great Wall. Image © Lei Jin

It's hard to put a new house and a new yard in 10 meters, if we can do that, we also lost landscape advantages from the high ground. So we decided to ...