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Johnson & Johnson Olympic Pavilion, Beijing PRC
Johnson & Johnson Olympic Pavilion, Beijing PRC
Chaoyang, Beijing, China
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Johnson & Johnson Olympic Pavilion, Beijing PRC
Chaoyang, Beijing, China
An Oasis of Caring
Johnson & Johnson’s Olympic Games Pavilion was conceived and designed to project the company’s commitment to caring into the experience of the Beijing Olympic Green.
Surrounded by a bamboo forest that sustainably sheltered its guests from the summer heat, the pavilion housed “The Caring World,” an exploration of how we care for each other and for our shared world and provided an extensive, multi-level hospitality space for Johnson & Johnson’s guests on the Olympic Green. The hospitality space featured a ground-level River Garden, a mid-level conference space and lounge, and a rooftop Cloud Garden overlooking the Green. As a continuation of the two firms’ ongoing collaboration with each other, the building and landscape were designed by Urban A&O and The Caring World was designed by Thinc.
The first encounter with the project is the Water Garden, a cool, lush, plant-filled oasis of steeply sloping topographic features that contrast sharply with the flatness of the Olympic Green landscape. Interlocking hills that define the entry path are heavily planted with a variety of bamboo and wild grasses brought north to Beijing from the warm southern province of Anji. Bamboo is the dominant plant material for the project and it can be found throughout the Pavilion and Landscape, generating a micro-climate in and around the Pavilion site. Cooling effects of mist and fog are located within the landscape, further contributing to the sense of a lush, green oasis. Custom-cast white pavers and white crushed gravel provide reflective surfaces that further reduce the Water Garden’s ambient temperature. A pond makes its way into a central void inside the Pavilion where the River Garden is located, with white lilies, grasses and a variety of tall bamboo planted deep within the building envelope.
The ramped ribbon of the Pavilion’s floor provides the project’s essential organizational and circulation device—an ascending, continuous ground plane for a sequential and contiguous experience. The path culminates in a Cloud Garden that offers a 360-degree panorama of the Olympic Green. The experience of the Cloud Garden’s its underwater fountains, misting pools, bamboo, wild grasses and floor level strip lighting, offers a spectacular day and night environment. Two shallow rivers on the Roof combine to form the waterfall that drops over three stories down the front façade of the Pavilion and into the white lily pond below.
The Pavilion is enclosed with white fritted glass, patterned with a varied density of abstracted, large-scaled bamboo leaves that generates the modulated interior light levels required by the Exhibition program and presents a soft, exterior white-on-white presence within the green bamboo planting of the gardens. The gently fractured façade is planted with living bamboo that traverses into the Pavilion at several location and wraps the building in a vertical garden that connects the Water Garden at ground level to the Cloud Garden on the roof. This inside-outside planting strategy dematerializes the curtain wall and contributes an awareness that the building is literally alive.
The exhibition employed storytelling media to highlight the views of dozens of individuals (from literally hundreds of interviews) on what it means to care for other. The exhibition utilized state-of-the-art three-dimensional media to show how Johnson & Johnson’s medical technology extends life and improves vitality. Through documentary video and a photographic exhibition by members of the world-renowned photojournalism agency VII, The Caring World highlighted global health issues and the confluence of philanthropy, health policy, and research that is required to overcome them.
Additionally, the pavilion featured an extraordinary display of Terracotta Warriors lent by the Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Army Museum in Xi’an, giving tens of thousands of visitors their first ever chance to see these astonishing 2,200-year-old antiquities. The loan was the result of a long-standing relationship between Xi’an Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company in China, and the Museum to develop methods to preserve the terracotta against airborne fungi.
Johnson & Johnson’s Olympic Games Pavilion was conceived and designed to project the company’s commitment to caring into the experience of the Beijing Olympic Green.
Surrounded by a bamboo forest that sustainably sheltered its guests from the summer heat, the pavilion housed “The Caring World,” an exploration of how we care for each other and for our shared world and provided an extensive, multi-level hospitality space for Johnson & Johnson’s guests on the Olympic Green. The hospitality space featured a ground-level River Garden, a mid-level conference space and lounge, and a rooftop Cloud Garden overlooking the Green. As a continuation of the two firms’ ongoing collaboration with each other, the building and landscape were designed by Urban A&O and The Caring World was designed by Thinc.
The first encounter with the project is the Water Garden, a cool, lush, plant-filled oasis of steeply sloping topographic features that contrast sharply with the flatness of the Olympic Green landscape. Interlocking hills that define the entry path are heavily planted with a variety of bamboo and wild grasses brought north to Beijing from the warm southern province of Anji. Bamboo is the dominant plant material for the project and it can be found throughout the Pavilion and Landscape, generating a micro-climate in and around the Pavilion site. Cooling effects of mist and fog are located within the landscape, further contributing to the sense of a lush, green oasis. Custom-cast white pavers and white crushed gravel provide reflective surfaces that further reduce the Water Garden’s ambient temperature. A pond makes its way into a central void inside the Pavilion where the River Garden is located, with white lilies, grasses and a variety of tall bamboo planted deep within the building envelope.
The ramped ribbon of the Pavilion’s floor provides the project’s essential organizational and circulation device—an ascending, continuous ground plane for a sequential and contiguous experience. The path culminates in a Cloud Garden that offers a 360-degree panorama of the Olympic Green. The experience of the Cloud Garden’s its underwater fountains, misting pools, bamboo, wild grasses and floor level strip lighting, offers a spectacular day and night environment. Two shallow rivers on the Roof combine to form the waterfall that drops over three stories down the front façade of the Pavilion and into the white lily pond below.
The Pavilion is enclosed with white fritted glass, patterned with a varied density of abstracted, large-scaled bamboo leaves that generates the modulated interior light levels required by the Exhibition program and presents a soft, exterior white-on-white presence within the green bamboo planting of the gardens. The gently fractured façade is planted with living bamboo that traverses into the Pavilion at several location and wraps the building in a vertical garden that connects the Water Garden at ground level to the Cloud Garden on the roof. This inside-outside planting strategy dematerializes the curtain wall and contributes an awareness that the building is literally alive.
The exhibition employed storytelling media to highlight the views of dozens of individuals (from literally hundreds of interviews) on what it means to care for other. The exhibition utilized state-of-the-art three-dimensional media to show how Johnson & Johnson’s medical technology extends life and improves vitality. Through documentary video and a photographic exhibition by members of the world-renowned photojournalism agency VII, The Caring World highlighted global health issues and the confluence of philanthropy, health policy, and research that is required to overcome them.
Additionally, the pavilion featured an extraordinary display of Terracotta Warriors lent by the Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Army Museum in Xi’an, giving tens of thousands of visitors their first ever chance to see these astonishing 2,200-year-old antiquities. The loan was the result of a long-standing relationship between Xi’an Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company in China, and the Museum to develop methods to preserve the terracotta against airborne fungi.
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