It seems that a gargantuan spaceship has landed, albeit with a ‘green’ essence, this is the envisaged design for Apple’s
newest campus, to be built at a large site, in the city of Cupertino. The ambitious plan calls for nigh circular mega structure, flanked by greenery both from the outside as well as from ‘inside’, within the structural premises (as the above image suggests).
Actually the site belonged to the computer division of HP, but it was sold to Apple at a latter date. Now, with this expansive area at hand, Apple looks forth to integrate this massive spaceship, glass facaded building; and this will have a capacity for 13,000 employees.
The grand scale of the proposition is quite evident in perspective of huge surface area covered, but the overall structure will only be four stories high. This in architectural terms can be described as being in human scale (much akin to the Pentagon), where the magnitude of horizontality far surpasses the verticality of a building.
As for greenery, the landscape feature has been planned to be increased from the existing 20 percent to a whopping 80 percent. This includes the introduction of indigenous plant species like apricot orchards, and Apple has already sought the help of an eminent arborist from Stanford. Finally moving on to the sustainable attribute, Apple will also include an efficient energy power system, derived wholly from clean energy sources like natural gas.
Steve Jobs had already presented his pitch regarding the grandiose design, to the local governing body. And what we know from this discussion is that the process is expected to start by 2012 and the building is estimated to be completed by 2015.
Source: Engadget
