The area of the park is about 19 hectares, and the work on the project took as long as five years. The difficulty lay in the fact that the natural zone had to not only form the ecosystem, comply with the principles of sustainable development and increase the comfort of employees, but also directly help the laboratory's research work. The fact is that not far from the circular building MAX IV there is a busy highway, vibrations from which can affect the measurement results, reducing their accuracy.
It turned out that these vibrations have a wavelength of 10 to 40 m and follow along the surface of the earth. To neutralize the negative impact of the highway, it was necessary to complicate and diversify the relief as much as possible. As a result, the entire park is covered with huge "bumps". They are located along straight tangent lines extending from the circle (additional laboratories can be built between them) and arcs twisted in the opposite direction. As a result, the vibration level was reduced to acceptable values. And at the same time, having provided for dry and ordinary ponds, the architects managed to organize storm drains (the Lund administration seriously limits the amount of rainwater entering the city sewer) and protect the laboratory building even from flooding of a force rare for this area.
The complex surface relief was designed using Rhinoceros 3D software and the Grasshopper module. And it was implemented by bulldozers controlled by the GPS system (GPS coordinates of the created relief components were stored in their memory). The architects themselves compare the whole process to the work of a giant 3D printer. It was this approach that made it possible to simply "regroup" the land masses according to the "cut and fill" principle - without removing the surplus or adding soil brought from outside.
As for the local herbs and plants, their source was the Kungsmarken park located very close. But special equipment and … grazing sheep will help to take care of the lawn. This is such a combination of high technology, modern science and rural idyll
