Campus concept
A hybrid: one core, several satellites
A central tower with research wings extending from it, plus separate buildings where separation is genuinely useful. The core holds the functions that need to be near each other; everything with a reason to stand apart, stands apart.
The core, from the middle outwards
Distance from the tower follows how often something is needed from it.
- 01
Central tower
Leadership, central command and agent operations, major meeting rooms, reception and visitor functions, and the monitoring and control of compute.
- 02
Research labs
Closest to the tower, because they are what the tower exists to support and the walk between a question and the people answering it should be short.
- 03
Prototyping and engineering
Beyond the labs. Noisier, dirtier and more spread out than lab work, and less often needed in a hurry from the core.
Separate buildings
Not everything belongs in the core. These have their own reasons to stand apart.
- Manufacturing and warehouseDifferent footprint, different logistics, different noise.
- Hazardous and specialized labsSeparation is the safety measure. It should not be argued about each time.
- Data centerPower, cooling and physical access controls that no office should inherit.
- GymSomewhere to go that is not the desk.
- Employee apartmentsFor people who want to live close, without making it a condition of the job.
- Support infrastructurePlant, storage, utilities and the unglamorous things a site needs to work.
Borrowed campus bikes
Free bikes at docks around the campus, borrowed rather than assigned. Take one from a dock, ride it to the building you need, leave it at the dock there. They stay ME property, so nobody is responsible for storing, insuring or maintaining one, and nobody has to find their own bike before they can cross the site.