Apple Campus 2

Apple Campus 2 - Architects and planning

Apple commissioned the British star architect Norman Foster (Foster + Partners) to design the new Apple campus. The plans mention the engineering and planning offices of ARUP (motto: "We shape a better world.") andthe city planner Kier & Wright, which should have dealt with the traffic flow and landscape planning. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The new "Apple Campus 2" in the visualization of the architectural firm Foster + Foster. "It looks as if a spaceship had landed," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Location - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The new headquarters is located in the northwestern city of Cupertino, California, north of Interstate 280th © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Location of the old and the new campus - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The orange-colored area on the left shows the old campus (Infinite Loop), the red area right above the new campus north of Interstate 280th Apple will use the old headquarters in the future. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Location - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced in the summer of 2010 to be in Cupertino Supercomputer Center which is located directly north of the previously purchased land along Interstate 280th © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Location - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The space will be 2.8 million square feet in size. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Traffic planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The plan, the Council has Apple in Cupertino deposited, includes a detailed planning of traffic flows. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Traffic planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

According to the plan many employees and all visitors will reach the new Apple headquarters on North Wolfe Road in the west. The thick red arrow indicates the traffic, caused by the employees when driving into the garage below the circular building. For visitors (purple arrow) there is a car park. The canteen in the north-east of the Apple HQ is supplied via the N Tantau Ave (green arrow). There is also the Apple Transit Center for commercial deliveries. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Traffic planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The light blue lines show the paths for ambulances and fire brigade. Along the green lines he service vehicles will move. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Traffic planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The car park at the southern edge of the campus can be reached via the N Tantau Ave. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Parking - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The Apple Campus 2 is located north of highway I 280. Directly to the 280 Apple will build a car park for the employees. 4300 cars should find a place here.

Parking - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

On four levels, employees from Apple can park their vehicles. With a wall on the side of the height of the building is reduced to the viewer visually. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Traffic planning - Pedestrians - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The path from the parking garage to the main building through a park. In this drawing, you may well see the green dotted walkways. Around the campus around leads a sidewalk (red line). © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Walkway in the park - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

This is the walkway through the park from around the Apple headquarters, as the architects see it. "We have engaged a leading tree care experts at Stanford so that will be cultivated mainly indigenous trees," Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Walkway in the park - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Another visualization of the paths across the Apple campus, which was provided to the Council of Cupertino by Apple. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Plantation Planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

For the Cupertino Council Apple counted every plant: On the large grounds existed 4506 trees or shrubs so far. 3451 of them will be removed. But after the reconstruction of the site (right) everything should be much greener than before. Overall, it should then be around 6,000 trees and shrubs. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Plantation Planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

On this map the Apple-architect have entered all the trees and shrubs that are on the former HP site so far. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Plantation Planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Even the "Courtyard" in the interior of the circular building is laid out like a park. Star-shaped paths lead through the park © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Plantation Planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Also in the southern area of ​​the former HP site are relatively few trees and bushes so far. Most will be replaced by a new planting. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Plantation Planning - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The lush greenery is reaching back to the car park to the south on the Apple campus. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Plantation Planning - Trees - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

There were 4300 trees on the old HP ground.

Plantation Planning - Trees - Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

There will be 8000 trees on the Apple Campus 2 in 2015.

Apple Campus 2 - The Park - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Here is a late summer Snapshot from the park on the new Apple campus, which was presented as a "rendering" of Apple to the Council of Cupertino. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - Main Building - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

This is the way Foster + Partners imagine the external view of the new Apple Headquarters. "There is not a straight piece of glass on this building," said Steve Jobs. He refered to the experience with glass buildings in the Apple stores around the world. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - E Homestead Rd / N Tantau Ave. - © Apple. Inc. - Forster + Partners

At the corner of Homestead Rd E / N Tantau Ave. is the cafeteria of the newcircular Apple-main building. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - Cafeteria © Apple. Inc. - Foster + Partners

In the cafeteria, up to 3000 people can eat at the same time.

Apple Campus 2 - Cafeteria © Apple. Inc. - Foster + Partners

The canteen at the Apple headquarters will merge seemingly seemlessly into the park.

Apple Campus 2 - Site Plan - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The "Apple Campus 2" is located on the north-eastern outskirts of Cuptertino. Steve Jobs would also really like to purchase the settlement in the southwest of the Apple campus in order to place the main building in the middle of a rectangular area. But the site was not ready for sale. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Size of the Apple Campus 2 compared with the size of the Pentagon

The main building has the size dimensions of the U.S. Department of Defense (blue overlay). At the Pentagon, however, more people work than in the future Apple headquarters. Source: Plan Apple Campus (© Apple Inc. - Foster ´+ Partners), Plan Pentagon from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Building_and_ship_comparison2.svg,

Apple Campus 2 - Parking - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Also under the circular main building Apple has planned underground car parks. There will be parking lots for 4.600 cars. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - Profile Main Building- © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The new Apple campus 2 in cross section. The main building has four floors, below a two-story parking garage is located. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - Main Building- © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

The purple spot marks the cafeteria in the north-west.

Apple Campus 2 - Research Center - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

There are no renderings from large presentation room ("Theatre"), but this drawing. The right circle describes the lobby, left the auditorium, where Apple wants to hold public presentations and conferences. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - Fitness Center - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

There will be no fitness center in the main building. Apple will build a separate, smaller circular building, which is located in the southeast of the campus. © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

Apple Campus 2 - © Apple Inc. - Foster + Partners

In 2015, Apple wants to relate the new campus. The old headquarters will remain. Between the two buildings, buses will commute with a biodiesel engine.