Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industriellt campuslandskap by Ballistic Architecture Machine

Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industriellt campuslandskap by Ballistic Architecture Machine is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Guld in Landskapsplanering och Trädgårdsdesign Competition Category.

GuldLandskapsdesign· 2023

Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industriellt campuslandskap

by Ballistic Architecture Machine

Client: Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)

A' Design Award i Guld Winner in Landskapsdesign Category

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The Design

About Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industriellt campuslandskap

Longking Pro Environmental Campus är en landskapsdesign för ett industriområde i Longyan, Fujian, Kina. Campuset omfattar 54 000 kvadratmeter tidigare jordbruksmark i en bergsdal. Fabrikerna är arrangerade kring en central innergård som struktureras av ett sex meters rutnät av kamferträd. En vattenkanal löper genom innergården och samlar upp källvatten, takavrinning och renat avloppsvatten, som renas ytterligare av en biofiltrerande våtmark. Rekreations- och sociala ytor, inklusive en basketplan, är placerade bland filtreringssystemen för personalens användning.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Guld

Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industriellt campuslandskap är vinnare av A' Design Award i Guld, ett oerhört prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas förstklassiga, underbara och enastående designverk. Guldvinnare är utomordentligt innovativa, visionära och glamoröst bländande skapelser som speglar sina formgivares briljans, visdom och skicklighet. Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industriellt campuslandskap förväntas vara en högt prisad, trendsättande och monumental uppfinning som levererar oöverträffat värde. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Guld är ett spektakulärt, respekterat projekt som i hög grad gagnar och flyttar fram gränserna för konst, vetenskap, design och teknik. Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industriellt campuslandskap skapar intensiva känslor av längtan, väcker passion, uppmuntrar kreativitet och fascinerar oss.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
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.
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.
Team Members: 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
Shi Yuning - designer
Image Credits: Photography by Wu Qingshan.
Diagrams and illustrations by BAM.