LOLA

It all starts with nature, and so does the Biotech HQ Science Campus. In 2021 LOLA was commissioned by the HAID Group to design the landscape for its new HAID HQ Science Campus in Guangzou, Guangdong. After two years of construction, the project has now successfully been completed, and the campus site is put in use.

The HAID Group is driven by its mission to shape a better future for rural China through pioneering agricultural and animal husbandry high-tech. Conceived as a self-sustaining, living biotech organism, the 11.76 ha campus landscape introduces nature gradually and across multiple layers, resulting in a rich, three-dimensional environment. At its core is a central lake, around which the relationship between buildings and green spaces unfolds into distinct spatial experiences. These evolving ‘circumstances’ express the seamless integration of biotechnology, ecological systems, and biotech organisms.

The landscape’s morphology is based on flows from different types of systems such as people, transport, water, and ecological cycles. The routing allows for different environments to be experienced, just like a liquid flow that adjusts and connects the whole organism.

Client: HAID Group
I.c.w: Guangzhou Design Institute Group, NBBJ, Be+maarch