![]() We were all sitting there, architects with gray hair, going, 'Holy s-t!'"īefore passing in 2011, Jobs admitted that his was not the most cost-effective approach. It had to be cut in the winter, ideally in January, to have the least amount of sap and sugar content. Stefan Behling, one of the architects working on Apple Park tells Wired, "He knew exactly what timber he wanted, but not just 'I like oak' or 'I like maple.' He knew it had to be quarter-cut. Many of the more expensive aspects of the campus were insisted upon by Jobs, who would hold five-hour-long meetings about the project even during his fight against cancer. Apple Park captures his spirit uncannily well." 'Creating an icon' "It was his favorite setting for thought. "Steve was exhilarated, and inspired, by the California landscape, by its light and its expansiveness," he said. We've achieved one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the world and the campus will run entirely on renewable energy."Ĭook explained that Apple's late founder Steve Jobs had been inspired by the Californian environment and that the company hopes that this eco-friendly setting will help spur the company's next generation of breakthroughs. In a press release, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "The workspaces and parklands are designed to inspire our team as well as benefit the environment. A green courtyard in the middle of the facility will allow employees to walk through nature as they cut across campus. Fittingly, Apple Park includes 6,000 trees and 5.9 million square feet of landscaping. Studies suggest that spending time outside can improve cognition and creative thinking. can be used for different functions so they never become antiquated and they never become out of style." The California landscape as inspirationĪpple's nature-forward approach to the campus's design may sound like good PR, but science supports it. "By that I mean to build out, to furnish, to design their spaces so that just about every space. "What we recommend to clients is to make their spaces future-proof," says Lesizza. The pods may also help the company adjust to technological advancements even as it's driving them. ![]() Apple Park's pods may be a good way to provide flexible space for different types of work. "You can have a cutting edge company but two groups that work in completely different styles," says Lesizza. He explains that the needs of an engineering team are entirely different from the needs of a marketing team. Sometimes this means designing different work spaces for different types of teams. "I think the best spaces enable different types of personalities and different types of work styles to work under the same roof." "Nowadays, unfortunately, a lot of organizations look for a one-size-fits-all, but it really depends on what the organization does and also what their culture is," he tells CNBC Make It. Scott Lesizza, founding principal at interior design firm Workwell Partners, says that a completely uniform design does not work for every company. And while the company has long been notorious for internal secrecy, compartmentalizing its projects on a need-to-know basis, Jobs seemed to be proposing a more porous structure where ideas would be more freely shared across common spaces. Not even the CEO would get a suite or a similar incongruity. They would be distributed democratically. ![]() Jobs' idea was to repeat those pods over and over: pod for office work, pod for teamwork, pod for socializing, like a piano roll playing a Philip Glass composition. This would be a workplace where people were open to each other and open to nature, and the key to that would be modular sections, known as pods, for work or collaboration. As with any Apple product, its shape would be determined by its function.
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