MAHA Beijing
Beijing
Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM) worked closely together with renowned hotelier Adrian Zecha, and the MAHA team to design the landscape and develop a multiphase masterplan strategy which seamlessly weaves a complex mixture of contemporary and classically styled elements pre-existing on the site.
The site occupies the northern edge of Chaoyang Park inside the Fourth Ring Road. At the time of engaging BAM, the site architecture was a mixture of four occupied residential towers, five unoccupied towers, a club and multiple Classical Chinese and Roman gatehouses in varying states of functionality. The existing landscape was also a smorgasbord of functional and dysfunctional spaces including a scaled replica of an imperial garden and a beautifully maturing manmade forest.
BAM’s design for the landscape and masterplan weave disparate aspects of the site together into a seamless series of gardens, functional spaces, and circulatory pathways. The existing landscape spaces are blended with new landscapes. Conflicting styles, time periods, and cultural references are smoothed out with BAM’s Minimalist landscape approach.
Luxury in the landscape is measured in time. Unlike architectural fields which depend upon rare or expensive materials to express luxury, the landscape can only truly achieve luxurious expression measured in years or decades. BAM’s idea for the landscape is to establish a grander sense of time, to plant the foundations of a landscape that will grow and continue to mature for generations.
北京缦合
北京
在BAM百安木与安缦酒店创始人Adrian Zecha密切合作基础上，设计团队对缦园进行景观设计与总体规划分期策略制定，实现了现代与古典元素在场地中的完美融合。
项目场地位于北京四环路内朝阳公园北侧，在BAM参与这个项目时，场地中是由已入住的4栋住宅塔楼，5栋未入住的住宅塔楼，一座会所建筑以及多个功能形态不一的中式和古罗马式门楼组成。现状景观也是混合了各种功能空间和不完善的功能空间，包括圆明园的等比复制品以及一片秀丽且成熟的人造森林。
通过BAM的景观设计和总体规划，场地中的花园、功能空间和园区环路等不同区域实现了无缝衔接，实现了现状景观与新景观的融合。BAM通过极简主义的景观手法，消除了项目内相互冲突的风格、时期和文化的差异。
景观的奢华是用时间来衡量的。花园不可能在一天内建成，而是由一砖一墙、一花一草精雕细琢而来。景观设计同理，也必须得到维护、照顾和培育。当我们看到眼前壮丽的风景时，我们看到的也是时间本身。我们可以看到年复一年的成长和维护，以及四季的变迁。不同于建筑领域依靠稀有或昂贵的材料来表达奢华，景观只有在几年甚至几十年的时间下才能真正体现出时间沉淀下的奢华。BAM的景观设计理念是建立一种更宏大的时间体系下的，为景观世代的成长和不断的成熟奠定良好的基础。