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Time Valley
Time Valley
Guang Ming Da Jie, Baoan Qu, Shenzhen Shi, China
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Other Projects by Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)
Time Valley
Guang Ming Da Jie, Baoan Qu, Shenzhen Shi, China
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2020
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
Across disparate cultures, the practice of Landscape Architecture is far from monolithic. The narratives utilized to garner support from client or public differ greatly between China, Europe and the United States. In China, it is often expected that a project narrative, cultural or historical in nature, physically manifests as the design itself. BAM’s Time Valley project is unique in that it successfully plays with and controls the project narrative. The physical playfulness of the design is matched by the playfulness in the interpretation of the history of time, the narrative which drove the design process.
The history of the site, the story, and the formal inspiration for the project are woven together inextricable from each other. The region in Shenzhen where the project is located is famous for the manufacturing of watches. The name of the project, "Time Valley" originates from this fact. The source of the idea behind Time Valley is “The Big Bang” along the tracks of TIME. We start the story with time as we know it today and go through the history of human perception of time.
The landscape of the Time Valley project wraps this narrative into the design of the spaces, starting with the ‘Unknown’. The unknown, is represented by public park planned by the government. This was an 'unknown' factor, because neither designers or the developer, were given any significant information about the design or how exactly the sites were to integrate in the future. While we understood the importance of this public green space to the project, any specific information was almost or seemingly non-existent. This unknown entity was formative for the project as it was directly connected via a staircase to one of the main courtyards in the project, the ‘Big Bang’ plaza.
The Big Bang plaza visually explodes across the road with a triangular crosswalk giving rise to the ‘Space-Time’ plaza. For the Space Time plaza, it is critical that the elements in the landscape appear to be floating in a space. The artificial drop shadow designed into the paving makes the objects appear as if they are lifting off the patterned backdrop. Inevitably, this Space-Time gives rise to 'Human Time' which is closely monitored in increments. This Human Time zone is the streetscape of the project, where people hurriedly leave or are arriving to work, always 'on the clock'. This measured time is represented in the landscape with repetitive, regular elements, such as paving patterns, streetlights, and benches which follow a rhythm and standardized increment.
Dotted around the site, close to entries, are science-fiction-like objects, which could be interpreted as spaceships, rockets, lunar modules, or intergalactic surfboards. These objects, water features and thresholds are refence to the circular nature of this narrative. The more technologically advanced humans become the more driven we are to identify and explore the space-time continuum as opposed to simply tracking it or theorizing about it.
The history of the site, the story, and the formal inspiration for the project are woven together inextricable from each other. The region in Shenzhen where the project is located is famous for the manufacturing of watches. The name of the project, "Time Valley" originates from this fact. The source of the idea behind Time Valley is “The Big Bang” along the tracks of TIME. We start the story with time as we know it today and go through the history of human perception of time.
The landscape of the Time Valley project wraps this narrative into the design of the spaces, starting with the ‘Unknown’. The unknown, is represented by public park planned by the government. This was an 'unknown' factor, because neither designers or the developer, were given any significant information about the design or how exactly the sites were to integrate in the future. While we understood the importance of this public green space to the project, any specific information was almost or seemingly non-existent. This unknown entity was formative for the project as it was directly connected via a staircase to one of the main courtyards in the project, the ‘Big Bang’ plaza.
The Big Bang plaza visually explodes across the road with a triangular crosswalk giving rise to the ‘Space-Time’ plaza. For the Space Time plaza, it is critical that the elements in the landscape appear to be floating in a space. The artificial drop shadow designed into the paving makes the objects appear as if they are lifting off the patterned backdrop. Inevitably, this Space-Time gives rise to 'Human Time' which is closely monitored in increments. This Human Time zone is the streetscape of the project, where people hurriedly leave or are arriving to work, always 'on the clock'. This measured time is represented in the landscape with repetitive, regular elements, such as paving patterns, streetlights, and benches which follow a rhythm and standardized increment.
Dotted around the site, close to entries, are science-fiction-like objects, which could be interpreted as spaceships, rockets, lunar modules, or intergalactic surfboards. These objects, water features and thresholds are refence to the circular nature of this narrative. The more technologically advanced humans become the more driven we are to identify and explore the space-time continuum as opposed to simply tracking it or theorizing about it.
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