The Google Bay View Campus has opened. Architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Heatherwick Studio have worked with Google\u2019s own design and engineering teams for the new Silicon Valley campus, the first major\u00a0campus the company has developed itself.\nSpanning a vast 42 acres and located next to Nasa\u2019s Ames Research...
Google has worked with architects BIG and Heatherwick Studio on the new Bay View Campus in Silicon Valley
Spanning a vast 42 acres and located next to Nasa’s Ames Research Center, the campus encompasses 1.1 million square feet and is composed of 20 acres of open space, two office buildings, an events space that can hold up to 1,000 people, and short-term accommodation for 240 employees., founder and design director of Heatherwick Studio. ‘Yes, people have done different aesthetic treatments. But there hasn’t been a fundamental questioning of the workplace at this scale.
A ventilation system, meanwhile, uses only air from outside, ensuring there is no recycled air, while a thorough venting of products and materials keeps toxins in the environment to a minimum. ‘The result is a campus where the striking dragonscale solar canopies harvest every photon that hits the buildings; the energy piles store and extract heating and cooling from the ground, and even the naturally beautiful floras are in fact hardworking rootzone gardens that filter and clean the water from the buildings. All in all, it’s a campus where front of house and back of house, technology and architecture, and form and function have been fused into a new and striking hybrid.
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