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They're replacing a massive campus covered in parking lots with orchards. They are building an underground parking garage. They're planting thousands of trees
by nirvana 15y ago
They're replacing a massive campus covered in parking lots with orchards. They are building an underground parking garage. They're planting thousands of trees. They're building foot paths, they've hired an arborist to make tree selection, they're brining orange groves back to silicon valley. They've designed probably the GREENest campus I've ever seen....
What's not seen on these drawings is the underground freeway[1] that takes cars off of the streets and into the campus, to the parking garages, and other facilities. This means a lot of surface concrete that would be required to support these employees is hidden, leaving more room for grass and trees.
What's wrong with that?
These people would actually RATHER that hugely inefficient parking lot that HP built? Really?
- mwd_ 15y agoOrange groves are nice but they're not necessarily a great form of land use in an urban area. If you build an orange grove in one location then the housing and everything else that could have otherwise been there gets pushed farther out. Distances between things increase and people have to travel farther. It might become a great campus, but do I think something higher density with a mix of uses would be more environmentally friendly.