Apple Campus 2 Work Continues as Lights Begin Turning On

[Smigit]

No, that's a good question. A ring is probably the worst imaginable plan for moving through the space. You can cut across the middle of the ring if the weather is conducive but even then the journey is complicated and lengthened considerably if either your origin or your destination are not on the ground floor.

The majority of staff will likely interact with their team who will be positioned near each other and won't need to do frequent cross campus trips. I'm sure they have communication tools like every other office to allow people to get in touch. I worked in a moderately sized four story office space for a year, was involved in dozens of meetings over that time and can still count on one hand the number of times I had to go to the top floor given IT was on the lower levels.

A quarter of a miles not that long anyway. I now admin an IT system out of a hospital and will frequently walk 100m to half a KM to get to staff to do on site support. It only takes a few mins. I enjoy the walks and given Apple is putting in fitness centres, trails etc, they are looking to encourage active lifestyles anyway so if staff do need to walk, it's likely not an issue. Apple probably wants people cutting through the inner gardens.

A narrower but longer (in this case circular) building lends itself to things like getting more natural light in too which is desirable.

I don't know the answer, but there's surely travelling happening for Apples existing employees anyway at the main Campus. As far as I'm aware they're in dispersed buildings and locations right now, and the same would apply where some will go between offices while others will likely stay in a single building most of the week. At least the new campus has an option to travel from A to B under cover.

 

[44267547]

Wait no Watch Band comments you guys are slipping.

Wait, more frivolous Watch bands comments that have nothing to do with the article. You must be slipping.

 

[Denmac1]

Might be a dumb question, but, is a circular shape really the wisest design choice here? Seems like it would take much longer to reach point A to B given that there is no middle, and you'd have to walk all around the circle to reach the other side?

Doesn't seem to matter. It appears that design & engineering never have to meet anymore.....

 

[Michael Scrip]

Could Apple let a car roll onto the stage there? My guess would be no, during the construction there were no tunnels visible leading to the underground auditorium.

There is absolutely a tunnel to the underground backstage area of the auditorium. It has been there since the beginning.

It might not have been featured in this latest video... but it's there.

 

[panther quest]

Might be a dumb question, but, is a circular shape really the wisest design choice here? Seems like it would take much longer to reach point A to B given that there is no middle, and you'd have to walk all around the circle to reach the other side?

It's not just a building, it's a way of life.

 

[Porno]

It's amazing what you can do with $14 billions... now sell that to google and pay your goddamn tax.

 

[Sill]

There is absolutely a tunnel to the underground backstage area of the auditorium. It has been there since the beginning.

It might not have been featured in this latest video... but it's there.

What is that terraced pile of black slabs that looks like a goth kid was playing the Circe Nightshade version of Minecraft? At one point in the video I saw some huge blocks of white styrofoam piled up on the other side of them.

 

[Edward Lyons]

Too busy building buildings instead of computers! Wow! Such hubris! When will Apple realise that the foundation of their appeal is now the Apple ecosystem. An ecosystem that stems from the use of a Mac. As people are progressively forced to ditch their outdated Macs and replace them with current PC's will they continue to buy Apple's tablets, phones and smart watches?

 

[Taeles]

Can you imagine the iPhone (2017) keynote there?

im mentally imaging iron man 2 when tony dropped from a transport craft to the stage floor with line dancers behind him heh.

 

[ikir]

Simply awesome. I've been glued to my screen. I would love to visit the mothership in the future!

 

[IJ Reilly]

The majority of staff will likely interact with their team who will be positioned near each other and won't need to do frequent cross campus trips. I'm sure they have communication tools like every other office to allow people to get in touch. I worked in a moderately sized four story office space for a year, was involved in dozens of meetings over that time and can still count on one hand the number of times I had to go to the top floor given IT was on the lower levels.

A quarter of a miles not that long anyway. I now admin an IT system out of a hospital and will frequently walk 100m to half a KM to get to staff to do on site support. It only takes a few mins. I enjoy the walks and given Apple is putting in fitness centres, trails etc, they are looking to encourage active lifestyles anyway so if staff do need to walk, it's likely not an issue. Apple probably wants people cutting through the inner gardens.

A narrower but longer (in this case circular) building lends itself to things like getting more natural light in too which is desirable.

I don't know the answer, but there's surely travelling happening for Apples existing employees anyway at the main Campus. As far as I'm aware they're in dispersed buildings and locations right now, and the same would apply where some will go between offices while others will likely stay in a single building most of the week. At least the new campus has an option to travel from A to B under cover.

Not as bad as the current campus seems like a pretty low bar for a brand new building costing billions. I know, Steve had a passion for walking himself, which is the other apparent theory behind this spreading out. Make 'em walk, and if they can't hack it, then tough. Maybe that's how they will cull out the herd.

But seriously. A half a mile isn't a lot, but it will take an average fast walker about ten minutes to cover. Most people tend to stroll, so call it fifteen. Each way. Steve probably thought of walking as productive time, but then his job description was talking to people while he was bolting off to see someone more important. How that will work for thousands of employees with more modest job descriptions, I am unsure.

Oh, and that courtyard, all 30 acres of it. A person could get lost in a space that large, especially when every direction they look they see the same thing.

Somebody made a good funny the other day calling the building Earth's home button. True story. It will look neato cool from outer space. From down here where the humans live, not so much, I think.

 

[Lancer]

The mother ship is almost ready!

 

[emm386]

Just as irrelevant to an Apple - enthusiast as the article about their customized wooden desks. . .

 

[OS6-OSX]

Now if only they would put so much effort into the Mac lineup

We are going to treat this campus like every other! To get the Mac Lineup on track we will have sit-ins and other means of protest. A heavy weight was sent ahead to ensure success. Tim and the others will be required to attend this class!

 

[Bacillus]

I am getting anxious about the little space left for Sir Jony Ive's Bentley's, Ferrari's, LeBaron's, and Eddy Cue's Maserati's, Jaguars and their support staff.
And with 6000 "engineers" working on Apple Maps, is there still room for Tim and Phil..?

 

[Piggie]

Made me think.

In the not too distant future, all the talk and brisk development on Self Driving Cars, which will be here in 5 years, and perhaps mo so with the general public in perhaps 10 years, when they have been more and more perfected, and people will just use them, as opposed to owning them, as why own a product that sits there unused for 98% of the time, taking up space.


Apple complex = 11,000 car parking spaces.

 

[Bernardus88]

"joggling", well hmm. But "cafe's" as a plural!!!

 

[manu chao]

And, September comes after October?

September 30, 4:30 PM Pacific Time,

There is absolutely a tunnel to the underground backstage area of the auditorium. It has been there since the beginning.

It might not have been featured in this latest video... but it's there.

I stand corrected, that second image shows a view that I had never seen (or noticed). I only remember the view the first image shows, where the access ramp to the construction pit surfaces directly adjacent to it, an area that is completely covered in later images. I guess there must have been additional excavation extending the pit after the first image was taken

 

[manu chao]

What is that terraced pile of black slabs that looks like a goth kid was playing the Circe Nightshade version of Minecraft? At one point in the video I saw some huge blocks of white styrofoam piled up on the other side of them.

It's there for landscaping purposes, to create a more varied-looking park-like landscape (for all intends and purposes it looks like black styrofoam). They most likely use it instead of just piling on dirt to reduce the weight the building below it has to carry. Maybe it also a protective layer against roots and water reaching the building.

 

[KPandian1]

September 30, 4:30 PM Pacific Time,

Huh?

(MR maybe looking for a longer post - can't do that here.)

 

[Doctor Q]

The spaceship has a vulnerability!

The Apple Empire doesn't consider a small one-man drone to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has demonstrated a weakness in the spaceship. But the approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction.

The original:

 

[redruman]

Well a square foot and a foot square are only the same when you are talking one. Larger than that and they are exponentially different. But I am so glad you didn't think I was saying something completely absurd.

You actually did say something absurd. A 830 foot deep floor plate would offer horrible daylight conditions, no access to views, and illogically long HVAC runs to name a few problems with your suggestion. Even at 400 feet to allow for central cores, the issues with your illogical suggestion remain. The tone of your comments suggests that you know something about building design and space planning. The content reveals the truth that you know very little.
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September 30, 4:30 PM Pacific Time,

I stand corrected, that second image shows a view that I had never seen (or noticed). I only remember the view the first image shows, where the access ramp to the construction pit surfaces directly adjacent to it, an area that is completely covered in later images. I guess there must have been additional excavation extending the pit after the first image was taken

The plans for this project are publicly accessible from the City of Cupertono's website. Here you go, I did the work for you.

 

[Smigit]

Not as bad as the current campus seems like a pretty low bar for a brand new building costing billions.

Well sure, if you see walking as an issue. If you dont, if you want active employees, then it's not a problem anyway.

As per the rest of my post, most staff are likely to interact with people quite close to them, the same as any other office based environment. Some staff may walk more than others due to their role, but normally people work in teams and where a team is dispersed technology then comes to the fore. The shape of the building is sort of irrelevant once you hit a certain population and find you can't have absolutely everyone sitting next to those they work with (and a campus catering for 11k cars is a big one).

Square, rectangular or donut shaped, if you need to walk to another team then you need to walk and get away from the desk. The shape of the building might add a bit of distance, but let's not think that adopting a different shape immediately puts everyone close to one another when you're catering to 10,000 people.

Frankly I'd prefer that building with stacks of natural light and an open atmosphere to some rectangular thing where you are just as likely to get lost, if not more so, and the majority of staff will be lucky to be facing an external window, assuming their room has windows at all.

 

[Michael Scrip]

I stand corrected, that second image shows a view that I had never seen (or noticed). I only remember the view the first image shows, where the access ramp to the construction pit surfaces directly adjacent to it, an area that is completely covered in later images. I guess there must have been additional excavation extending the pit after the first image was taken

No problem.

I'm actually very excited about the auditorium. Being a dancer/performer almost my entire life... I've become very familiar with auditoriums.

And there's one thing I learned... you don't build a 1,000 seat house without good access to the backstage area.

I've been following this since I first saw the plans back when Steve was alive. I love the idea of an underground auditorium! Too bad I'll probably never see it in person.

 

[truthertech]

Now if only they would put so much effort into the Mac lineup

Can you get any more predictable??????