Ballistic Architecture Machine

BAM is a multidisciplinary team of landscape architects, artists and architects founded by Daniel Gass, Jacob Walker and Allison Dailey. BAM’s work originated from the creation of installations in the public realm. Over its 12-year history, BAM has evolved to become one of China’s leading urban and landscape design firms with offices in Beijing, and […]

The site is located on former agriculture land in a pristine valley in the mountains North of Longyan city. Natural springs and overflow from the mountain reservoir pass through the center of the site to the Warao creek, which is the headwaters of a river system connecting with Xiamen. The client Longking specializes in industrial […]

The site occupies the northern edge of Chaoyang Park inside the Fourth Ring Road. At the time of engaging BAM, the site architecture was a mixture of four occupied residential towers, five unoccupied towers, a club and multiple Classical Chinese and Roman gatehouses in varying states of functionality. The existing landscape was also a smorgasbord […]

The Tokyo EDITION, Toranomon, the city’s newest luxury hotel designed by Kengo Kuma with the vision of Ian Schrager, opened its doors to first guests October 20 this year. BAM had the honor to design the hotel’s highlight, a rooftop terrace overlooking Tokyo’s iconic skyline. BAM travelled to Japan and worked together with architects and […]

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. In a design […]

Shenzhen is a place of utter newness, a city born in the 1990’s. It is the cradle of tech innovation in China and regards itself and its urbanism as entirely future focused. The people of Shenzhen are from all over the country, as such it is a city comprised almost entirely of migrants, most of […]

Unlike most parks, Daxing Park touches the doorstep of the surrounding buildings. It is not severed from the city, nor isolated by a perimeter road. It does not sit as an island but extends as a park territory directly from the material of the architecture. The parking garage, subway station, restaurants, homes, and commercial spaces […]