Located in Jiaxing, China, Xiaoya is an elegant courtyard on the roof of a factory designed in 2020 by Jianyu Jiang.

Description
The transition of the city is a complicated process. Along with the old memories gradually gone, new emotions are constantly being generated. When production breaks through itself and has more connections with life, the vision of the garden will continue.
The project is located in the Xucun Industrial Zone, Haining, Jiaxing, in which we built an elegant courtyard on the roof of a factory and named it as Xiaoya. In this courtyard, the functions of reception, catering, and office are combined. And it has broken through the single working mode and expanded the breadth and depth of life.
How to deal with the relationship between architecture and environment has being the first research focus of the design. The place is adjacent to the main road of the city, and there are many self-built houses in the surrounding countryside. So the designer uses green plants as walls to shield from the noise on the road and disorder of vision, which has embodied the conception of oriental gardens by modern garden methods, and created an atmosphere of being in the city but like a wild place. Utilize the natural sight line deviations of the roof platform to balance the surrounding axis, and the phototaxis of the biological instinct to allow the viewer to do the natural selection: even if indoor and outdoor are separated, you can still look up at th...