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CRland Life Sciences Campus

The site is a campus with research and development facilities in three large low-rise buildings, located within the Beijing Daxing District Biomedical Industry Base. The architectural common programs are organized around a sunken plaza which includes a meeting center and the cafeteria. BAM was invited to design the campus landscape.

photo_credit Wu Qingshan
Wu Qingshan
photo_credit Wu Qingshan
Wu Qingshan
photo_credit Wu Qingshan
Wu Qingshan

The landscape design organizes a network of campus pathways that cross the space of the campus as in a classic quadrangle, except in three dimensions. Paths cross elevated bridges and sunken plazas creating a multilevel campus landscape. To encourage the use of the campus spaces the landscape features a variety of seating and meeting zones.

photo_credit Wu Qingshan
Wu Qingshan
photo_credit Wu Qingshan
Wu Qingshan

The planting design idea is to create a seasonal medicinal garden that runs the east-west length of the campus along a primarily covered corridor. The garden space features medicinal plants with a focus on traditional Chinese medicine. In the medicinal garden, researchers are invited to sit in intimate seating areas with granite benches. The largest communal space of the landscape is positioned outside of the cafeteria and meeting center. Here, a 12 m-long water table is centered within a double row of Chinese ash.

photo_credit Wu Qingshan
Wu Qingshan
photo_credit Ballistic Architecture Machine
Ballistic Architecture Machine
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