With personnel inefficiently scattered throughout the Houston area in a variety of leased offices, BMC Software needed a well-designed, secure campus to house all its existing employees. Competition for employees and clients within the software industry is fierce. The new campus must therefore be viewed as an attraction glamorous enough to court and retain employees and clients alike.

From the beginning of this three-phase project, the goal of the landscape architect was to work in unison with the client and architects to create a campus atmosphere that would foster comfort, interest and engagement.       

What could be a more innovative or appropriate theme for this campus than the computer itself? The crisp, clean lines of the site design evoke the simple logic of computers. Building facades subtly incorporate patterns of zeros and ones to represent the binary system that drives all computers. A complete integration of the landscape with the buildings was of utmost importance to maintain the unique aesthetic theme and to allow for easy movement between interior and exterior spaces throughout the campus.    

Designed for heavy use, the campus has three serene entry plazas, large enough to gracefully usher thousands of visitors past a variety of water features for any given single event. Filled with charming amenities and visual delights, the campus is home to an amphitheatre, recreation court, putting green and a herb garden. Loblolly Pine and other Houston area mature trees were transplanted with careful precision to provide necessary shade and to bestow the campus with a stately grandeur, uncharacteristic of many modern corporate settings.