The Research and Engineering Campus of Ford Motor Company is reimagined for the future of workplace, ecological restoration, and mobility. The plan concentrates 20,000 employees in a dense, interconnected environment to promote collaboration in a dynamic workplace experience. What is now primarily a campus of aging buildings surrounded by parking is transformed into a restored natural setting, establishing habitat for native flora and fauna and connecting people to the outdoors. A primary mobility loop links cross-campus destinations and parking areas with multiple modes of transit. The master plan empowers Ford and its employees as the campus transforms through several future phases of development.

Work completed at Snøhetta while Kevin Cunningham was employed as a landscape architect.

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LOCATION / Dearborn, MI

CLIENT / Ford Motor Company

TEAM / ARUP, Applied Ecological Services, Directional Logic

DATE / 2019

PRESS

“Exclusive: Ford’s radical new corporate campus is a glimpse into its future,” Mark Wilson. fastcompany.com. 17 September 2019.

“Ford releases plans for major overhaul of Dearborn Campus,” Aaron Mondry. detroit.curbed.com. 27 September 2019.

“Snøhetta Has Just Unveiled Its Plan to Transform Ford’s Research Center,” Elizabeth Fazzare. architecturaldigest.com. 3 October 2019.