Name: Google's Proposal for North Bayshore
Uploaded: 2015-04-09T04:43:04.000Z
Duration: 9 min 54 s
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(Bjarke) Silicon Valley has been the cradle

of this series of innovations that over the last decades

have propelled technology and world economy.

But all of the resources, all of the intelligence,

It was just fascinating to be seeing the physical reality

and that valley actually itself hasn't changed.

we've moved into them, and we've made do best we could.

We have an opportunity to build new buildings,

which is nothing unique, which people do every day,

but what we've tried to do is take a step back

and say, "How do buildings work with nature?"

You know, "What will transit look like in the future?"

We're really making sure that we make spaces

very open and accessible so it's just not for Googlers,

but it's for anyone who lives in the area to come by.

And then the last piece, which is really Google at its heart,

in anything we do, trying to leave the project

(David) We scoured the world, looking for a special architect,

who really listened and created stuff from the ground up.

And we really got down to what we believed were

My name is Bjarke Ingels. I'm an architect

(David) The BIG Studios, they're ambitious.

They do a lot of very community-focused projects,

Good actually. Good reaction, by the way.

(David) Thomas, on the other hand, has this attention

to human scale and beauty that I haven't seen in anyone before.

And you bring those two people together--

somebody who really thinks about function and form

and you just have this team that does pretty amazing stuff.

(Bjarke) When we met each other in Mountain View,

to maybe come up with something that would be much more creative

than anything we could have come up with ourselves.

(Thomas) What is the best possible environment we can make

to invent, engineer, and most importantly, make ideas happen

(Thomas) When you visit the Google campus,

But there's this constant, major undermining of that

by the road system and the infrastructure

And it just feels like trees are, like, street furniture.

(Bjarke) And everything has turned into parking lots.

We're trying to sort of reverse this process,

and really sort of recreate some of the natural qualities

really transform the sea of parking that you find today

where you'll find an abundance of green both outside,

that enclose and protect pieces of nature.

(David) Next to ecologically-sensitive areas

We're able to create areas where we're restoring waterways

It's interesting to try and look at how you can

really augment or turn the dial up more on that nature,

at the same time as looking to really protect the land use.

(Bjarke) Google's presence in Mountain View is simply so strong

that it can't be a fortress that shuts away nature,

It really needs to become a neighborhood in Mountain View.

(Thomas) A motivator for the work we're doing now is to be generous.

You can provide facilities that can be shared with people

and keep an organization's feet on the ground.

both the public as well as employees to move through them.

We wanted to make sure that we created communities

they didn't have to worry about cars zipping by

(Thomas) Part of our work is to try to find ways

to make places that you would go and have a conversation

(Bjarke) So in that sense, our idea for the Google campus