Designed for a forested mountain top setting, Buji Residences redefines typical luxury housing with a vibrant aesthetic that reflects Shenzhen’s youthful energy and the lush surroundings. Known for its bold use of colour, Buji Residences combines pink and purple shades with the deep emerald green of the planting design. While bold yet soothing through its analogous colour combinations, the Buji Residences contrasts with the ordinary neutral colour schemes that dominate residential design, showing that striking yet visually appealing colours and patterns can enhance residential communities.
Buji Residences comprises 11 residential towers built on a challenging mountain terrain. Despite limited construction space, the project offers high-density living facilitated by multifunctional landscape areas that serve the varied needs of residents and their visitors.
BAM integrates landscape program zones for residents of all ages, including a swimming pool, a multi-nodal playground, chess and game rooms, reading zones, pet gardens, sports courts, a playfield, and a dance plaza. The high-density mix of programs is nestled within architectural elements that serve as landscape structures: lobbies, site walls, fences, corridors, ramps, and covers become the occupiable and connective fabric of the landscape program zones.
Visually, the design is recognised for successfully blending high-contrast patterns and a bold colour palette into a premium residential landscape. Instead of aiming for a notional luxury through conventionally expensive-looking materials, the project adopts a tropical modernist style where pattern, colour, and space create a visual richness that goes beyond a routine use of costly finishes.
Buji Residences
Location: Shenzhen, China
Client: Legend
Landscape Architect: Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)
Collaborators: Shenzhen University Institute of Architectural Design and Research (Architecture), PT Landscape Architecture (LDI Landscape)
Images Credit: Wu Qingshan and Amey Kandalgaonkar
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