Depends on how you're making this square. If you keep the courtyard in the middle, then it's going to take longer with a square. I think you're taking out the courtyard to make the square (creating lots of sad office space nowhere near a window).
Walking across the courtyard will be pretty nice. We're talking about a part of the world where the weather is nearly perfect almost every day of the year.
I'd be using the "traditional" square with 4 equal sides and four right angles. Not sure what other type of square there is.
As for the courtyard, that was the point of my comment.
FYI: No building in any large corporation allows one a shorter path than that arc. You aren't working with people all over the campus.
These aren't international flight plans. No arc path is shorter than a straight line and there is no argument you can make to say that an arc is shorter for foot traffic on a flat surface.
I might be the lone dissenter, but I look at it this way: Apple didn't become the company they are today by having luxurious offices. They got there by having a stern taskmaster, in the form of Jobs, and by having great, talented people able to pull of the impossible regularly.
I view the campus as a mistake. Keep the cramped offices.
Depends on how you're making this square. If you keep the courtyard in the middle, then it's going to take longer with a square. I think you're taking out the courtyard to make the square (creating lots of sad office space nowhere near a window).
Walking across the courtyard will be pretty nice. We're talking about a part of the world where the weather is nearly perfect almost every day of the year.
Actually if you keep the same area and the same interior width, the distance you will have to walk is exactly the same for circle or a square building, so long the corridor is at the center and not the edges. But if you walk around the external perimeter of the building, a circle will give a smaller distance, while the internal perimeter will be smaller for a square
It is beautiful but it seems like a huge pain to walk around. I hope that the underground portion that will house a walkway across the ring will also include a moving sideway to help speed up that process.
Looks like an inverse White Wall Tire. But when finished, Tim Cook should hide 5 Golden Delicious tickets in Apple products and have those winners with the Golden Delicious Apple tickets tour of the newly built facility including future products and at the end of the tour, Tim retires and "gives" the Apple "Spaceship" campus to the winner!
These aren't international flight plans. No arc path is shorter than a straight line and there is no argument you can make to say that an arc is shorter for foot traffic on a flat surface.
It is not as simple as that! With this kind of configuration, with a courtyard at the center, the distance you will have to walk is basically the same for circular or squared building with the same area. Shortcuts through the courtyard would be quicker in a squared building though
It is not as simple as that! With this kind of configuration, with a courtyard at the center, the distance you will have to walk is basically the same for circular or squared building with the same area. Shortcuts through the courtyard would be quicker in a squared building though
Don't be an idiot by counting the courtyard as interior building space. It's an open area. So for you to claim that walking from the far edge of one exterior of the ring to the interior of the ring then directly across the courtyard and from the interior of that side of the ring to the exterior of that side of the ring is the same as walking the same internal space in a building without an expansive courtyard is idiotic.
Don't be an idiot by counting the courtyard as interior building space. It's an open area. So for you to claim that walking from the far edge of one exterior of the ring to the interior of the ring then directly across the courtyard and from the interior of that side of the ring to the exterior of that side of the ring is the same as walking the same internal space in a building without an expansive courtyard is idiotic.
I think I made it quite clear that both buildings would have a courtyard at the center and the same office area - square and circle. In those conditions you would basically walk the same distance internally from one edge to the other.
It is not as simple as that! With this kind of configuration, with a courtyard at the center, the distance you will have to walk is basically the same for circular or squared building with the same area. Shortcuts through the courtyard would be quicker in a squared building though
And corner cases (no pun intended) abound. For example, if you're traveling faster than the speed of light, on a star date ending in .42, while standing on your left foot, the building shape lending to the shortest path would be purple.
Think "Roller Derby"! Easy to envision a nice hardwood track down the center of each floor - just step into your skates and z-o-o-m on down the line to see your cubicle mates! Certainly something Google would do if THEY owned the building, eh? -e
I think I made it quite clear that both buildings would have a courtyard at the center and the same office area - square and circle. In those conditions you would basically walk the same distance internally from one edge to the other.
Considering that I started this discussion and you disagreed with my comment change your position is weak.
…there is no argument you can make to say that an arc is shorter for foot traffic on a flat surface.
Underneath the building is a miniature particle accelerator. Apple will utilize wormholes to make curved-line travel within the building shorter than a straight line.
Originally Posted by InteliusQ
This would be so cool if it was like the building from "The Jetsons".
Apple's proposed building is very impressive. My one reservation is this. Most of the renderings of the building that I've seen show the bird's eye perspective, the round, black roof (solar panels?) the prominent feature imo. And the few ground view renderings that I've seen reveal a massive, curved, glass-walled building with white trim. But I still think that the birds will have the better view.
Also, since I remember watching Captain Kirk running in circles in the curved hallways of the Enterprise, I have an idea what the inside of the building will be like.
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I'd be using the "traditional" square with 4 equal sides and four right angles. Not sure what other type of square there is.
As for the courtyard, that was the point of my comment.
These aren't international flight plans. No arc path is shorter than a straight line and there is no argument you can make to say that an arc is shorter for foot traffic on a flat surface.
I view the campus as a mistake. Keep the cramped offices.
Depends on how you're making this square. If you keep the courtyard in the middle, then it's going to take longer with a square. I think you're taking out the courtyard to make the square (creating lots of sad office space nowhere near a window).
Walking across the courtyard will be pretty nice. We're talking about a part of the world where the weather is nearly perfect almost every day of the year.
Actually if you keep the same area and the same interior width, the distance you will have to walk is exactly the same for circle or a square building, so long the corridor is at the center and not the edges. But if you walk around the external perimeter of the building, a circle will give a smaller distance, while the internal perimeter will be smaller for a square
It is beautiful but it seems like a huge pain to walk around. I hope that the underground portion that will house a walkway across the ring will also include a moving sideway to help speed up that process.
Segways for the execs, Roombas for everyone else.
These aren't international flight plans. No arc path is shorter than a straight line and there is no argument you can make to say that an arc is shorter for foot traffic on a flat surface.
It is not as simple as that! With this kind of configuration, with a courtyard at the center, the distance you will have to walk is basically the same for circular or squared building with the same area. Shortcuts through the courtyard would be quicker in a squared building though
Don't be an idiot by counting the courtyard as interior building space. It's an open area. So for you to claim that walking from the far edge of one exterior of the ring to the interior of the ring then directly across the courtyard and from the interior of that side of the ring to the exterior of that side of the ring is the same as walking the same internal space in a building without an expansive courtyard is idiotic.
Don't be an idiot by counting the courtyard as interior building space. It's an open area. So for you to claim that walking from the far edge of one exterior of the ring to the interior of the ring then directly across the courtyard and from the interior of that side of the ring to the exterior of that side of the ring is the same as walking the same internal space in a building without an expansive courtyard is idiotic.
I think I made it quite clear that both buildings would have a courtyard at the center and the same office area - square and circle. In those conditions you would basically walk the same distance internally from one edge to the other.
And corner cases (no pun intended) abound. For example, if you're traveling faster than the speed of light, on a star date ending in .42, while standing on your left foot, the building shape lending to the shortest path would be purple.
Think "Roller Derby"! Easy to envision a nice hardwood track down the center of each floor - just step into your skates and z-o-o-m on down the line to see your cubicle mates! Certainly something Google would do if THEY owned the building, eh?
-e
Considering that I started this discussion and you disagreed with my comment change your position is weak.
This would be so cool if it was like the building from "The Jetsons".
Underneath the building is a miniature particle accelerator. Apple will utilize wormholes to make curved-line travel within the building shorter than a straight line.
Meet Stev-en Jobs!
Jon-a-than Ive!
Rob-ert Mansfield!
Phil… Schiller!
“Where’s T–“
Too few syllables.
Also, since I remember watching Captain Kirk running in circles in the curved hallways of the Enterprise, I have an idea what the inside of the building will be like.