Jony Ive, Chief Design Officer within Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and the man who oversees the development of designs for all the company's products, spoke in a recent interview about Apple Park. You probably know that Jony Ive was actively involved in creating the design that Apple Park has at the moment, both in terms of the exterior and the interior,
In a recent interview, Jony Ive provided some interesting information about Apple Park, confirming the fact that the team will be the last one there, in the fall of this year. Based on what Jony Ive says, it seems that Apple wants its employees to be moved to the new campus by the end of this year, which should happen in the spring, but due to production problems the moves have been postponed.
Jony Ive says that Apple Park was designed so that all the facilities are close to the employees, they can walk on foot, with bicycles or with electric golf carts, between the various buildings. Jony Ive designed the design of Apple Park with as few floors as possible to eliminate the need to install elevators, so the headquarters of the new campus has only 4 floors, on the last one having the offices of Tim Cook, the senior vice presidents and Jony Ive's design team.
Jony Ive says that Apple's designers and architects built various sections of the campus before construction to test the locations where they will work. In doing so, the teams discovered that in the center of the main, round-shaped building, there was too much noise from people moving through it, so the decision was made to build perforated walls to absorb the sounds around the offices.
"I take offense at the idea that he hasn't already thought of every detail during the years of planning Apple Park. He scoffs at an article claiming that Apple contributed to a tree shortage in the Bay Area by buying up so many plants for the campus, "as if we'd got to the end of our project and we thought, Oh, we'd better plant some trees." Apple began working with an arborist years ago to source trees, including varieties that once made up the bountiful orchards of Silicon Valley; more than 9,000, many of them drought-resistant, will have been planted by the time the campus is finished."
You can find more details from Jony Ive's interview in This article.
