The petal certified, all-electric, and net water positive campus is a model of sustainability with the largest geothermal installation in North America. I was a member of the workplace design team at Studios Architecture who provided interior architecture for the 16ha (40 acre) site that includes an events center and two offices for 5,000 Googlers.

Bayview is an urban-scale interior featuring roughly 18 interior courtyards, the majority of which compare in size to a basketball court or small city plaza. Walking from the far corner of one dome to the other corner, a purely interior walk, can take 3-5 minutes. This unique condition of scale prompted my design team to treat the interior of Bayview like a small city, its corridors as streets, team huddles and conference rooms as neighborhoods & courtyards as town squares.

“The design of Bayview is akin to the design of an interior town, oriented around Google’s mission of innovation and discovery, and operating on a foundation of profoundly green infrastructure.”