Campus Mango courtyards

Landscape–Architecture Symbiosis

The intervention understands the courtyards as large plant lanterns capable of bringing light, nature, and comfort to the workspaces that surround them. The constant visual relationship between interior and exterior makes vegetation become part of the users’ everyday experience, incorporating a permanent green presence within the building.

The courtyards are organized around a perimeter planting that concentrates the vegetation along their limits and generates an immersive atmosphere visible from all work areas. This arrangement makes it possible to maximize the green surface and reinforce the feeling of naturalness within a contemporary architectural environment.
Inside these plant masses, small paved islands emerge, resolved through dry-laid overlapping pieces. These spaces become places for meeting, rest, and relation, providing spatial quality and reinforcing the connection between architecture, light, and vegetation.

The proposal promotes a relationship of symbiosis between landscape and architecture, transforming the courtyards into spaces that go beyond their environmental function. Vegetation contributes to improving comfort, provides spatial quality, and reinforces the identity of the interior spaces.
Beyond their functional dimension, the courtyards become spaces of well-being that connect people with nature within their work environment. Light, vegetation, and the presence of spaces intended for meeting and rest contribute to creating a more human, comfortable campus aligned with the needs of its users.

Vegetation

With regard to the tree planting, each group of courtyards is represented by a tree, always using deciduous species to favor sunlight in winter. Thus, we find, on the one hand, the courtyards with Acer campestre, native to Europe; those with Liquidambar styraciflua, of American origin; and those with the Asian Ginkgo biloba. The shrub and perennial vegetation that accompanies them, although it has a common base with species such as Viburnum tinus, Prunus laurocerasus ‘Otto Luyken’, Carex pendula o Polystichum setiferum, also incorporates unique species in each courtyard, so that, in addition to the tree planting, they are characterized by differentiated flowerings or foliage. Some of these species are Geranium ‘Rozanne’, Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’, Nandina domestica ‘Obsession’ i ‘Lemon Lime’, i Farfugium japonicum.