Ondrej Holzman As part of its new environmental campaign, Apple also published a video revealing the project of a new campus that the company is currently building and where it wants to move to within three years. Project designer Norman Foster also revealed a few details.
“It started for me in December 2009. Out of the blue I got a phone call from Steve. 'Hey Norman, I need some help,'" recalls architect Norman Foster in the video, who was moved by Steve's following words: "Don't think of me as your client, think of me as one of your team members."
Norman revealed that the link to the Stanford campus where he studied and the environment in which he lived was important to Jobs. Jobs wanted to embody the atmosphere of his youth in the new campus. "The idea is to bring California back to Cupertino," explains dendrologist David Muffly, who is in charge of flora at the new campus. A full 80 percent of the campus will be covered in greenery, and it's no surprise that the entire campus will be powered by XNUMX percent renewable energy, making it the most energy-efficient building of its kind.
Now when you hear "Campus 2" you automatically think of a futuristic building resembling a spaceship. However, Norman Foster revealed in the video that originally this shape was not intended at all. "We didn't count on a round building, it eventually grew into that," he said.
A detailed video about the new campus was first seen in October last year by representatives of the city of Cupertino, but now Apple has released it for the first time in high quality for the public. Apple intends to complete "Campus 2" in 2016.
Well, anyway, it's a famous design. I'd like to take a look there when it happens.
it (shape) was already written about a long time ago...