• Aug 08, 2022 • 1909

Shanghai-based architecture practice Domain Architects has built a boutique hotel with a thatch roof and 60,000-metre hemp rope in rural Beijing, China.

Named Beijing MM Farm Boutique Hotel, the 630-square-metre complex was transformed from an abandoned primary school.

The school remained abandon for years in a mountain village in Beijing, consisting of four rows of brick and timber frame houses arranged in a repeated way and surrounded by high perimeter walls.

The project site is located close to Miyun Reservoir in the mountain area surrounding the city center of Beijing is still kept rural and natural.

As the studio explained, as a rent property, the client wanted to renovate it into a high-end boutique hotel.... (...)