Internet project: virtual hotel and landscape

Modelled and rendered with various 3D software, web site with room reservation system
Site redesign and re-programming for mobile and various screen sizes, HTML5

20 years ago, our Hotel Vue des Alpes went online and opened its guest rooms on the Internet. Many tourists have since visited Vue des Alpes and enjoyed their virtual holidays in the digital Alps. However, the imminent end of the product life cycle of Flash Media Player made it necessary to re-program the entire site and player of the hotel project in HTML5. At the same time, we have given the interface a contemporary touch without throwing overboard the look-and-feel of the former website.

The new, responsive site of Hotel Vue des Alpes reopened in 2020. It is accessible with smart phone or desktop browser at www.vuedesalpes.com

While the web site and player have been completely re-done, the project itself and all its components and media assets remain unchanged. It is still possible to book one of the nine hotel rooms for free and enjoy virtual walks within the fictitious landscape.

More information on the project and the original desktop version from 2000: Vue des Alpes

related:
• Vue des Alpes, Internet project, site, 2000 - 2020
• Vue des Alpes Prints, series of inkjet prints, 2000 ff.

• Zimmer 400 (room 400), installation, 2013
• Mountain Top (Moscow Version), livestream installation, 2013
• Wasserfall (waterfall), permanent print installation, 2011
• Brocken (boulder), object, 2010
• Gehege (enclosure), permanent installation, 2010
• Loch (hole), livecam installation, 2009
• Wasser (water), series of inkjet prints, 2009
• Felswand, Ufer, Brocken (rock wall, shore, boulder), permanent print installation, 2008
• Wandern (hiking), public space posters, 2006
• TV-Room, interactive animation, 2006
• Vermessung (surveying), installation, 2006
• Walkthrough, installation, 2006
• Mountain Top, (BALTIC version), livestream installation, 2005
• Wiese (meadow), interactive installation, 2005/2010
• Nebel (fog), interactive installation, 2005
• Berg (mountain), installation, 2005
• Yama (mountain), Swiss pavilion, World Expo Aichi, 2005
• Terrasse mit Schlitten (sundeck and sled), billboard, 2004
• Hotel Flyer, brochure, 2004
• Transfer, public space installation, 2003
• Mon Repos, installation, 2003
• Gleissenhorn Livecam, installation, 2002/03
• Wasserfall (waterfall), digital animation, 2002/2005
• Landschaft (landscape), installation (wallpaper), 2002
• Wald (forest), installation (panorama), 2001
• Ufer (shore), floor installation, 2000
• Landschaft (landscape), installation (cabin), 2000

shown at:
• Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, Grossglockner (aut): "Alpenliebe", 2014/15
• Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (ch): "Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg", 2010
• Museum MARTa (ger): "Pittoresk - Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild", 2010
• Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (ger): "Swiss MadeII", 2007
• Substitut, Berlin (ger): "Nature revisited", 2007
• FRAC Alsace, Sélestat (f): "Vue des Alpes", 2006
• Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ch): "Somewhere Else is the Same Place", 2005/06
• Kunstforum Baloise, Basel (ch): "Rocks, Flowers and a Touch of Dizziness", 2005
• BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (uk): "Package Holiday", 2005
• Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, Matsumoto City Museum, Nagano, Shimane Art Museum, Matsue (jpn): "Alpine Air", in cooperation with Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch), 2005/06
• FRAC Lorraine (f): "Quand les latitudes deviennent suisses", 2005
• Jiff Mind Festival, Jeonju (kor): "Swiss Media Art Today", presented by plug.in, Basel (ch), 2004
• Wolfsberg Centre, Ermatingen (ch): "www.vuedesalpes.com", 2003
• Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch): "Neue Räume", 2003
• Centro Conde Duque, Madrid (esp): "Media Space Suiza - Contemporary Swiss Media Art", 2003
• "Diplomatic suitcase", Bern, Sydney, New York, Beijing, Barcelona, Stockholm, Genua: travelling art project of the Swiss Foreign Department, 2002/03
• Villa Merkel, Esslingen/Neckar (ger): "a Walk, a Ride, a Lift", 2002
• Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv (ukr): "Not only Chocolate", 2002
• Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel (ch): "Templates", 2001
• Liste 01 Art Fair, Basel (ch): Nicolas Krupp Gallery, solo presentation, 2001
• Fri-Art, Fribourg (ch): "Etat des lieux # 4", 2000

text:
• Catalogue: "Somewhere else is the same place", Christoph Vögele (Hg.), mit Textbeiträge von Sarah Cook, Bernadette Fülscher, Sabine Rusterholz, Dominik Petko und Christoph Vögele, edition fink, Zürich 2005, 2. Auflage 2006, ISBN 978-3-906086-90-3 (d/e)
• Catalogue: "Being a Guest", Andreas Baur (Hg.), mit Textbeiträgen von Andreas Baur, Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg, Reinhard Storz, Ludwig Seyfarth, Dorothea Strauss, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-85616-211-9 (d/e)
• Catalogue: "A Walk, a Ride, a Lift", Andreas Baur (Hg.), mit Textbeiträgen von Andreas Baur, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Ludwig Seyfarth, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-85616-158-9 (d/e)