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Apple submits detailed proposal for 'Spaceship' campus

Apple's SpaceShip campus to hold 13,000 employees and run on green energy. See the latest rendering and plans for the mega campus.
Written by Boonsri Dickinson, Contributing Editor

As NASA puts its historic spaceship mission to rest, Apple plans to bring a little bit of that vision home.

Apple has submitted plans of its futuristic office design to the City of Cupertino, revealing more details and drawings of what the Spaceship campus will look like. The Apple Campus 2 is expected to be completed by 2015.

According to Cupertino's website, the proposal includes plans for a research and development building that is 2.8 million square feet, a thousand seat auditorium, a fitness center, research space of 30,000 square feet, a central plant, and parking.

Currently, Apple’s headquarters can only hold 2,800 people but has 12,000 employees in the Bay area. Instead of renting out more office buildings at a greater radius from the main office building, Steve Jobs would rather house all his employees in one building. The new campus is essentially a ring-shaped building on 175 acres of land in Cupertino, California and is designed to accommodate 13,000 employees.

“It’s a little like a spaceship landed,” Jobs said in June, when he presented his plans to Cupertino City Council. “It’s a circle. And so it’s curved all the way around.”

The review process includes an Environmental Impact Assessment, development review and public hearings at the Planning Commission and the City Council.

The hope is to maximize efficiency and convenience to Apple's employees by creating connected building, while reducing the building's overall footprint on the site. The office will run on it's own on-site central power plant, so it doesn’t have to depend on the city’s power grid for energy.

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via the City of Cupertino and MacRumors

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