Designed to manifest Google’s adaptative and evolving approach to technology, the Bay View Campus organizes its three main structures within the natural California landscape and around a centralized gathering courtyard. The site aims to use only carbon-free energy by 2030 and is net-water positive from its performative campus landscape. Located within the coastal marsh wetland ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay, the campus enhances existing waterways with treatment ponds to recycle all onsite black, grey, and stormwater for campus and municipal use. This engineered ecology hosts a network of accessible pedestrian cycle-friendly pathways threading together exterior spaces, including fitness stations, yoga lawns, and wildlife observation platforms, creating a productive campus for both habitat and community.

Work completed at OLIN while Derek Hoetmer was employed as a landscape architect.

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