Nature is a commanding presence in Northern California. The architecture of the VMware campus hinges upon this realization and two chief resolutions set the tone: a decision to reverse the typical proportional relationship between buildings and landscape, the human-made is purposefully enmeshed in the natural world. The second critical choice was to clearly separate the vehicular and pedestrian circulation. This embrace of Nature is all encompassing and calibrated to offer an array of experiences to the users.
This 100,000 sq ft LEED Platinum Certified building with 90,000 sq. ft. of office space and a 10,000 sq ft athletic facility with PVs on the roof was much needed to expand the capacity of the VMware campus. The workplace’s interior and exterior boundaries remain purposefully ambiguous, certainly a California theme. Such soft delineation of its physical contours is consistently found in the numerous civic episodes where the workforce can find opportunities for chance encounters in a leisurely dimension, bucolic and metropolitan at the same time.
The hardscape make the outside a fully occupiable space to perform vital functions for the company to thrive, shaping a welcoming ensemble in the working week.
This is the workplace of the 21st century.
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