Vue Hotel Houhai Beijing

VUE Hotel comprises 6 historic buildings adaptively reused as an 80-room hotel with café, restaurant & rooftop bar. To distinguish between old & new, we abstracted the traditional “cracked ice-ray” pattern from lattice screens & applied to interiors & landscape; draped the buildings with charcoal grey to conceptually fade, while highlighting key details in gold. VUE’s whimsical art installations present a fresh way “to view” conventional opulent Chinese luxury. The Houhai Lake-inspired narrative imagines VUE anthropomorphically transforming foxes & rabbits to become human-like curious tourists

Question, Disturb and Redefine!
Through a series of architectural & interior architectural explorations, Ministry of Design is positioned as an integrated spatial-design practice that consciously blurs prevalent intellectual & literal boundaries between interior space & exterior form. Acknowledging the limitations of these distinctions on our design process, Ministry of Design's explorations are created amidst a democratic "studio-like" atmosphere and progress seamlessly between form, site, object and space.