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Shoukai Vanke Centre Beijing
Discipline : Urban Design, Landscape Architecture & Landscaping
Categories : Landscape Architecture / Landscape Architecture of an Office Project or Office Terrace Roof : Platinum Winner
The Shoukai Vanke Daxing Center shows the value landscape can offer dense urban office-centric mixed-use blocks, and a glimpse of important new role landscape plays within the workspaces of the future.
BAM worked against great odds to create a place for the landscape in the project. The density of the architectural mass, the fire lanes and emergency platforms, the subway station, and underground utilities created a ground plane condition that suggested a desert of paving. BAM worked with civil engineers to create pockets of space that could support not only ground covers but over 180 canopy trees.
BAM reorganized the roof deck of the project to feature a landscape. Although the basic architectural massing left a central ‘roof garden’, the architects had not planned for the entire HVAC system of the project to be located in the same area. Consequently, BAM delved into the workings of the mechanical system to route ducts and place equipment in a manner that could facilitate the soil depth requirements of a living roof garden. Raised planters enabled to plant stripes of Pennisetum, Hylotelephium, and other drought tolerant species.
The result of BAM’s ‘elbowing in’ to the project design is the creation of over 20 program zones dedicated to the many needs of the users. These include an outdoor smoking room, a skateboard friendly corner, a basketball court, a “cheese wall” playground for the kids, and office terrace sky gardens climbing the triangulated corners of the tower.
Collaboration
Landscape Architecture : Ballistic Architecture Machine
Other : CABR（中国建筑科学研究院有限公司）
Lighting : LDPi (英国莱亭迪赛)
Architect : CLOU Architects
Architect : Sunlay Design Group
