Golden A' Design Award Winner 2023
Verdant expanses of meticulously orchestrated landscape architecture unfold across this elevated perspective of Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)'s Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape, where the compositional armature employs a masterful serpentine pathway that guides the eye through successive spatial registers from foreground lawn terraces toward the dramatic mountainous backdrop. The chromatic palette presents a sophisticated analogous harmony dominated by viridian, emerald, and sage greens punctuated by strategic chromatic accents including a striking golden-yellow pyramidal pavilion that functions as the compositional apex, its warm cadmium-yellow hue creating thermal contrast against the cool blue-green mountain silhouettes rendered in atmospheric perspective with characteristic value diminution and saturation reduction. A cylindrical woven bamboo structure in the left foreground introduces raw sienna and ochre tones, its basket-weave texture providing tactile counterpoint to the smooth lawn surfaces. The sinuous asphalt pathway in deep charcoal gray traces an elegant S-curve through the landscape, its white dashed markings creating rhythmic visual punctuation while establishing scale relationships. Architectural volumes in neutral whites with orange accent bands flank the composition symmetrically, their rectilinear geometries providing stable counterbalance to the organic curvilinearity of the garden forms. The lighting suggests late afternoon golden hour conditions, with warm illumination casting soft shadows and enhancing the dimensional modeling of topographic undulations created by rounded hedgerow masses resembling verdant hillocks. Spatial depth is articulated through atmospheric perspective, with distant peaks rendered in graduated blue-gray tones suggesting considerable depth, while the middle ground presents layered planting zones including deciduous trees with spring-fresh foliage, ornamental shrubs, and carefully placed river stones creating naturalistic drainage channels. The overall compositional schema balances asymmetrical organic forms within a structured campus framework, achieving dynamic equilibrium between industrial functionality and biophilic sanctuary principles.
The splendid garden is located on former farmland in a pristine valley in the mountains, north of Longyan City in China. Natural springs and the overflow of the mountain reservoir flow through the center of the mega industrial campus. The customer Longking specializes in industrial environmental protection equipment and research. To create this romantic and colorful landscaping the team used environmental technologies developed in-house. The landscape is a new form of recreation and serves as a showcase for people to better understand the underlying natural processes upon which are depended.