Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
The serpentine architectural form of the Linkong Biomedical Park Multifunctional Offices operates as a powerful spatial metaphor drawing upon deep archetypal associations with organic growth patterns, cyclical movement, and protective enclosure that resonate across cultural traditions, the S-curve or double spiral configuration evokes universal symbols of dynamic equilibrium, recalling the ancient forms of the yin-yang diagram suggesting complementary forces in harmonious balance, the ouroboros serpent of perpetual renewal, and the double helix of genetic structure particularly apt for a biomedical research context, this formal language positions the architecture as participating in life processes rather than standing apart from them, the green roof surfaces function symbolically as a reconciliation between human technological intervention and natural systems, proposing that construction need not represent nature's displacement but can serve as an extended ground plane for ecological continuation, the white edge banding encircling the building volumes operates as a threshold marker distinguishing the realm of controlled human activity from the surrounding landscape while simultaneously connecting them through visual continuity, the courtyard spaces carved from the building mass create what environmental psychologists term prospect and refuge conditions, protected territories that afford both shelter and outlook corresponding to fundamental human spatial preferences rooted in evolutionary psychology, the aerial viewing position itself carries symbolic weight suggesting omniscient understanding and comprehensive vision appropriate to scientific endeavor, the chromatic dominance of green throughout both architecture and landscape activates associations with growth vitality hope and renewal while the crystalline transparency of the glass facades suggests openness clarity and the free exchange of knowledge, numerologically the paired volumes and dual courtyards emphasize duality relationship and dialogue over solitary autonomy
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.