{"id":34543,"date":"2021-04-27T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-swa-2019.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=34543"},"modified":"2021-04-27T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:37:28","slug":"grounding-walmarts-new-home-office-campus-in-big-nature","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.swagroup.com\/stories\/grounding-walmarts-new-home-office-campus-in-big-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounding Walmart\u2019s New Home Office Campus in Big Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1601499616638{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-size: 34px !important;\">Grounding Walmart\u2019s New Home Office Campus in &#8220;Big Nature&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;34560&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row gap=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;32547&#8243; img_size=&#8221;200&#215;200&#8243; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.swagroup.com\/principals\/gerdo-p-aquino\/&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>SWA Co-CEO<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swagroup.com\/principals\/gerdo-p-aquino\/\"><em>Gerdo Aquino<\/em><\/a><br \/>\ntells the story:<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]As Walmart forges ahead with development of its new home office campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company is sharing its approach to workplace design, combining a commitment to employees with a sense of greater responsibility to the broader community and natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>In Walmart\u2019s latest \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/newhomeoffice\/breaking-ground\">Breaking Ground<\/a>\u201d video, SWA\u2019s Gerdo Aquino, Ying-yu Hung, and Jana Wehby discuss their landscape design concept for the project, which is based on an idea of \u201cbig nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We asked Gerdo Aquino to tell us more:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is \u201cBig Nature\u201d?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Big Nature is an aspirational concept: the idea that every landscape we inhabit, we develop \u2013 small or large \u2013 is part of a larger ecological system. We should always be mindful of that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is that idea manifested in the Walmart project?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our first cue was looking at the macro scale of the Ozark Mountains and understanding its character, its natural beauty and plant species. From there, we analyzed our site and based on historic map data, recreated what our site may have looked like over 300 years ago: forested, open glades and seasonal streams.\u00a0 This \u201chistoric\u201d map became the basis of our approach to the landscape architecture design of the overall campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is it important?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This idea, Big Nature, and the campus-wide application is important because it became the de facto way we (Walmart and SWA) made decisions about design \u2013 e.g. is that grove of trees \u201cBig Nature?\u201d Is that bench \u201cBig Nature?\u201d and so on.\u00a0 Walmart felt the attributes of NW Arkansas, the Ozarks, should be felt on the campus. 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