Press Release
Ballistic Architecture Machine Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Ballistic Architecture Machine for landscape planning and garden design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape by Ballistic Architecture Machine, designed for Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM). The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape
Longking Pro Environmental Campus is a landscape design for an industrial site in Longyan, Fujian, China. The campus covers 54,000 square meters of former agricultural land in a mountain valley. Factories are arranged around a central quad structured by a six meter grid of camphor trees. A water channel runs through the quad and gathers spring water, roof runoff and treated sewage, which is cleaned further by a biofiltration wetland. Recreational and social spaces, including a basketball court, are placed among the filtration systems for staff use.
Award Record
Ballistic Architecture Machine is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award
The A' Landscape Design Award is an international landscape design competition recognizing good landscape designs by leading architects and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Typical entries include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. The awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/146668
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/146668
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!146668
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/339513
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bam-land.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape
- Function
- Industrial Public Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dark Green and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ballistic Architecture Machine
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #146668
Credits
- Team
- Daniel Gass - founding partner, landscape designer, Xiaodan Ji - associate manager, project manager, Jingwen Guan - partner, business director, Ren Xiangyu - environmental consultant, Li Menghao - designer, Zhang Weiwei - designer, Li Mona - designer, Li Kewen - designer, Winki Ho - designer, Simone Shing - designer and Shi Yuning - designer
- Image Credits
- Photography by Wu Qingshan. Diagrams and illustrations by BAM.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The site is located on former agriculture land in a pristine valley in the mountains North of Longyan city. For the landscape design BAM showcases the environmental technologies pioneered by the client, Longking company. Apart from showcasing plant-based and technological methods for water and soil filtration, the spaces of the campus also provide staff the opportunity for new forms of recreational engagement with the ecological processes and technologies which are the fruits of their labor.
- Inspiration
- Thankfully the world is beginning to realize the climate predicament cannot be solved by a return to nostalgic ideas of Nature which are embedded in the style of ecological landscapes. We live in a time where environmental technology bridges the gap between outdated fossil fuel civilizations and more sustainable futures. Visually, the design explores this concept through the eternally fascinating dichotomy between order and chaos, organic vs regular, manufactured vs wild.
- Research
- Significant research, supported by environmental consultant Ren Xiangyu, was dedicated to figure out a feasible wetland filtration system for the cleaning of sewage water on site. The total filtration system on campus is a complex combination of natural wetlands, various treatment units, filters, tanks and drains, as well as selected plant species.
- Challenge
- Cleaning sewage, which happens on site in this project, was the biggest challenge because of the complexity of the overall water system, which has been described in the flow section of this application. The client really followed through with the implementation of the technologies which is key to the success of this project long-term. For humans to improve our relationship to the earth we need environmental technologies like those developed in Longking. We also need to understand the landscape needs to be both good for us and the planet. Longking campus needs to be a landscape for its people, so they work better and harder making more technology to clean up our other industries.
- Realization and Technology
- The factories are organized around a central quad, structured by a 6m grid of Camphor trees. The landscape water system forms the central channel of this quad, a morphology related to the functional attributes of the ‘natural’ water systems. To make this factory function, this landscape provides sewage filtration, heavy metal uptake, and runoff recapture. But also, to make this factory function, this landscape provides the cool campus, the recreational spaces, the social spaces that the humans need to thrive. The sewage treatment element takes care of the office workers waste. The basketball court creates a factory worker break space.
- Operation and Interaction
- The design scheme is shaped heavily by the water and sewage condition on site. An underground spring forms a water source at the top of the site, the rain run off is collected from the roofs of the factories to further charge the water system. This water mixes with the post-filtered sewage through a biofiltration wetland to reach landscape water levels. This is then pumped back up through the filtration further increasing the purity of the water. The factory and office tower sewage is piped to an MBR device, which is a box developed by the client for treating sewage on off grid sites. It is the size of a shipping container in the landscape.
- Project Duration and Location
- Location: Longyan, Fujian, China. Design Period: 2020-2021 Construction Period: 2021-2022
- Specifications
- Design Area: 54,000m2
- Keywords
- landscape design, campus, environmental design, factory, industrial, laboratory, project interview, research facility, water facility
