12.000 people in 1 single building - a man-made forest of more than 7,000 trees - Welcome to the Apple's 'spaceship' : Cupertino building

Publié le 9 Février 2015

The spaceship takes shape: Drone footage reveals the foundations of Apple’s new 'donut' HQ on the futuristic 175 acre building site

Site is cordoned off, but one Apple fan got an aerial view of the building using a GoPro-equipped drone
Apple founder Steve Jobs originally submitted the application for the Cupertino headquarters back in 2011
The campus will be a mile in circumference, feature glass walls and solar panels and cover 175 acres

Cars will be 'banished and buried' in an underground car park and tarmac will be replaced with greenery
Glass walls the height of the building will slide open, and cafes and restaurants will help break up the vast scale
More than 1,000 bikes will be kept on site to help staff make their way around the circular campus

I think we do the best office building in the world

Norman Foster, Architect

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1125590/Drone-footage-reveals-Apples-donut-shaped-HQ.html

Steve Jobs presents the plan for the new Apple Campus (2011) LAST STEVE JOBS FOOTAGE. This is the last known video footage of Steve Jobs. He presented to plans of the new Apple Campus "The Mothership" to the Cupertino City Council.

Appearing as a giant saucer, the Silicon Valley site near the 280 Highway will be home to 13,000 Apple employees.

There will be jogging and cycling trails, with more than a thousand bikes kept on site at all times, which staff can use to make their way around.

The Spaceship will have 360-degree curved glass fronted walls and central courtyard as well as a 1,000-seater auditorium, a gym and 300,000 square feet of 'research' space.

Apple Campus 2 will additionally have underground parking hidden from view, meaning 80 per cent of the site can be covered in trees. The site was previously owned by Hewlett Packard and the majority of the area is currently covered in asphalt.

Elsewhere underground, the auditorium will be where Apple's CEO Tim Cook will present the companies keynotes ahead of product launches, for example. This auditorium will be covered with a circular glass pavilion that will also be an access point for employees and guests.

Natural gas will, primarily, provide the building's power and the local energy grid will only be accessed in emergencies. The glass structure will also be fitted with solar panels.

The circular, four-storey building will be around a mile in circumference and a third of a mile wide and was recently described by the San Fransisco Weekly as a ‘massive glass doughnut’.

The building stays eco-friendly with natural ventilation that works instead of air-conditioning for 70 per cent of the year, low energy LED lighting where natural light doesn’t reach, and on-site recycling.

With this in mind, Sir Foster said he wanted to add a series of 'organic segments' to the Cupertino building - nicknamed the Apple spaceship because of its vast circular shape that covers 175-acre and features a man-made forest of more than 7,000 trees.

He also wanted the circular building to surround a private space in the centre, designed to replicate the California landscape, and mimic the orchards that Jobs remembered fondly.

As a result, Sir Foster told Architectural Record: 'The car would visually be banished, and tarmac would be replaced by greenery, and car parks by jogging and bicycle trails.'

The ring-shaped structure was Jobs’ brainchild, yet after his death British designer Jony Ive took the project on with the help of Sir Foster, and the local council approved their ambitious plans last year.

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