Gold Landscape Planning and Garden Design · 2023
Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape
by Ballistic Architecture Machine
- A' Design Award 2023 Gold Winner in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 67,615
- Verification code 428B07E3E6 · Verify this award
About 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.
Within the evolving discourse surrounding contemporary landscape architecture's capacity to reconcile industrial functionality with ecological sensitivity and human wellness, Ballistic Architecture Machine's Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape emerges as a distinguished exemplar of integrated environmental design thinking. The composition demonstrates sophisticated understanding of traditional Asian garden principles reinterpreted through contemporary spatial practice, where the meandering pathway serves not merely as circulation infrastructure but as a contemplative journey device inviting sequential discovery of programmatic moments. The striking golden pyramidal pavilion, positioned as a visual terminus along the primary axis, appears to reference both vernacular agricultural structures and sacred mountain forms prevalent in regional landscape iconography, its luminous presence creating what might be termed a secular shrine within the industrial context. The cylindrical bamboo gathering structure exemplifies material authenticity and craft tradition, its woven texture suggesting continuity with artisanal heritage while providing intimate human-scale counterpoint to the surrounding architectural volumes. Technical accomplishment manifests in the nuanced topographic modeling creating undulating green masses that soften the industrial campus perimeter while managing stormwater through naturalistic swale systems visible in the stone-lined channels. The chromatic restraint of the architectural elements permits the landscape palette to predominate, establishing clear hierarchical relationship between built form and living systems. The composition invites consideration of how contemporary industrial environments might embrace regenerative landscape principles that nurture both ecological health and human flourishing, perhaps prompting viewers to contemplate their own relationship with designed nature within workplace contexts.
Press Kit
- 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.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Design Area: 54,000m2
- Tags
- landscape design, campus, environmental design, factory, industrial, laboratory, project interview, research facility, water facility
- Production 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. Ecological and cultural spaces are equal pieces of the landscape.
- Design 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.
- Project Duration
- Location: Longyan, Fujian, China.
Design Period: 2020-2021
Construction Period: 2021-2022 - Operation Flow
- 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. It prefilters the toxic elements down to a point where it can then be biofiltered safely. - 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.
- 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.
- Image Credits
- Photography by Wu Qingshan.
Diagrams and illustrations by BAM.
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