“Hutong” Hotel

‘Hutong’ Hotel is a project to explore how Beijing Hutongs develop under the influence of modern business. The aim is to study how to reduce the space contradiction between modern business and traditional hutongs, and the hollowing of Hutongs caused by excessive commercial development of Hutongs.

China is in a period of rapid modernization. Modern civilization and traditional culture are in strong conflict which has caused rapid and chaotic changes in the appearance of the city. With the reconstruction of the old city, the excessive commercial development of Hutong has continuously destroyed the spatial texture and ecological environment of its neighbourhoods.

The project starts with connecting different functional spaces inside and outside the Hutong and reduces the spatial conflict between commercial transformation and traditional Hutong by rebuilding the existing abandoned space. While solving the needs of the Hutong’s internal and external space, the original horizontal space restrictions of the Hutong was broken through the construction of visual corridors and vertical spaces, so that rebuilds the Hutong texture.

The project can become an innovative community to cope with the commercialization of the Hutong in the future.