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From AppleInsider
Rapid progress on the iconic Campus 2 complex has come via an innovative structural design that stacks interlocking concrete void slabs, which “serve as both the ceiling of one floor and support for the raised surface of the floor above,” Apple has stated. The Ring’s nine building segments of four floors are joined by open hallways that radiate from the center circle, as seen below.
Apple’s web site states, “we have approached this [Campus 2 construction] project with the same care and attention to detail we devote to designing any Apple product. We will replace 2.65 million square feet of environmentally and operationally obsolete buildings with a 2.8-million-square-foot iconic, 21st-century research and development campus.”
Expected occupation by the end of next year
Granted final approval just two years ago, Apple’s Campus 2 project is rapidly moving toward its occupancy goal of 2016.
Apple’s cofounder Steve Jobs unveiled the huge project in 2011, noting that the central 2.8-million-square-foot “Spaceship” structure would house at least 12,000 employees, surrounded by bucolic landscaping including orchards of fruit trees and other greenery, featuring open space and walking paths to reclaim most of the 150-acre plot previously covered by asphalt parking lots.
