Apple Park, the new headquarters of the Apple company, was recently presented to several American journalists invited to take part in the experience of visualizing the place where the company's employees will soon work. We are talking about a tour made by Apple designers together with the team of architects and some managers, who explained some of the concepts behind the headquarters.
As you can see from the images, we are talking about an eccentric headquarters that Apple created according to its own specifications and rigors. The company chosen to create the architectural plan had at one point 250 people employed to develop this project for Apple, the number being a huge one for such a project.
In This article of those from Wired you will find a lot of details about what the Apple company has created, from how the workspaces for employees are organized, to the materials used for construction, the reason why the main building is circular and many others information that will probably amaze you.
Apple Park was the dream of Steve Jobs, a dream for whose realization he fought and which he supported even in front of the local council of the city of Cupertino. Although Steve Jobs did not live long enough to see his dream come true, if he were alive now, he would probably be proud of what Tim Cook and his team have achieved.
"As with any Apple product, its shape would be determined by its function. 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. 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. They would be distributed democratically. Not even the CEO would get a suit or a similar incongruity. 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 totally open, of course—Ive's design studio, for instance, would be shrouded by translucent glass—but more open than Infinite Loop."
