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Wu Qingshan

Project • By Ballistic Architecture Machine • Offices

Rongchuang Headquaters Plaza

The project is a plaza for office headquarters in Shenzhen. The site spans two plots separated by a tertiary planning road. The architectural programs include office towers with retail podiums. A subway line passes under the east side of the site and has delayed completion of a portion of the landscape around the subway station. Wu Qingshan Wu Qingshan The site is located in the Nankai District near Nankai and Tianjin Universities. The landscape design works as an onion, with layers around a core central plaza. The outermost street facing layer is designed to accommodate grading differences and integrate as much street planting as possible. The middle zone features benches and seating zones intended to be used by office workers a... More

Shuhe

Project • By Ballistic Architecture Machine • Showrooms

Waterball Plaza

The design utilizes a language of circles to settle the plan elements. A hardscape zone of black and white granite cobbles connects the mass of the architecture with a circular corner plaza of equal visual weight. Twenty-seven large granite boulders paired with Sabina chinensis define the edge of the circular plaza. The boulders also mask a temporary parking requirement by acting as curbstones. Shuhe Shuhe Shuhe Visually the composition of concentric radiations of the hardscape zone forge a strong connection with the compositions of the Zen rock gardens. At the same time, they create powerful centers and gathering spaces. The center of the parking plaza again reinforces the Zen tradition: an asymmetrical composition featurin... More