Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
Wsp Architects's Linkong Biomedical Park Multifunctional Offices exemplifies a sophisticated engagement with organic architectural form-making that has characterized some of the most innovative institutional design of the early twenty-first century, participating in broader conversations about how buildings might transcend their static nature to become dynamic participants in landscape systems rather than isolated objects upon neutral ground, the serpentine configuration of interconnected volumes creates what might be understood as an architectural embrace, with the building's arms reaching around to define protected interior courtyards while simultaneously opening outward to engage the surrounding parkland, this dual orientation speaks to the complex programmatic requirements of contemporary biomedical research environments which must balance the need for controlled interior conditions with recognition that human creativity and wellbeing flourish when connected to natural systems, the technical achievement evident in the seamless integration of extensive green roof systems demonstrates mastery of contemporary sustainable building technologies, with the living surfaces appearing to flow continuously from grade-level lawns up and over the building volumes in an unbroken topographic gesture, the glass curtain wall systems punctuating the white-banded horizontal planes provide generous natural illumination to interior spaces while the carefully articulated reveals and mullion patterns create subtle rhythmic variations across the facades, compositionally the work achieves remarkable balance between the centripetal forces drawing attention inward toward the courtyard heart and centrifugal energies extending outward into landscape, the chromatic restraint of the architectural palette allows the verdant greens to assume visual primacy establishing the building as fundamentally a garden structure, viewers might contemplate how this work reimagines the relationship between architecture and ecology, proposing that buildings need not merely minimize environmental impact but might actively contribute to the flourishing of living systems
Zhengzhou Linkong biomedical park is divided into the South and the north according to its functions. The designer uses the East-West life axis in the middle to realize the North-South dialogue through the free walking curve, making the park a unified whole. It has built a new modular production center and a pilot production center in the north of the park. The core of the space uses the double helix structure to derive the vertical space combined with the central landscape. It pays homage to the most important source code of modern biomedical industry gene DNA.