DESIGN OF GOOGLE HEADQUATERS

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INTRODUCTION:
Google Headquarters is lot more than a typical IT enterprise, where workers mean a lot, their creativity and skills matter too. Also, in contrast to them, their working environment have to
inspiring any time. Google is the Internet, media and technology company responsible for some of the world’s most utilized Internet applications and social networking tools. Most Internet
users know Google as the leading search engine for information on the world wide web, but the company is also responsible for Android, Google Glasses and various applications that help
make the Internet a more user-friendly and fluid space. It will be a great opportunity to young creative geeks out there to show their skills set in leading web-based innovation product.

AIM:
To understand the working and methodology of Google headquarters and design a headquarters at Chennai, that has to be technically and aesthetically satisfying.

OBJECTIVES:
1. Creating Interesting spaces to promote circulation.
2. Introducing ‘Morphogenesis’ concept in working Hub’s.
3. Creating Inspiring interiors to promote googlers more productive.
4. Multiple cuisine Kitchens and Cafeterias.

SCOPE:
5. To improve employ skilled professional and designers over southern part of India.
6. Improves production rate in India.
7. Providing jobs offers for young Designers and professionals.

PROJECT SCOPE:
As the technologies grows the needs to adopt them also get increased. Already there are 4 google headquarters located in northern India. So, a new campus in southern part of India
will employ skilled its professionals & designers in the southern region. National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) shows that unemployment figures in 2008 est. 9.9 million.
As if google were trying to improve their production rate in India combined with apple, this project may increase the company production rate and provide jobs for unemployed
peoples.

DESIGN SCOPE:
Basically, IT or web-based hubs gives more important to architecture. They have strong belief that the office interiors and planning create great impacts on workers, and also their
offices are multicultural and lacks breathing spaces. So, there are many factors to addressed in design.

LIMITATIONS:
Project is Limited to the designing of Google Headquarters related to its unique spatial requirements.
 LITERATURE STUDY:
REQUIREMENTS: MOUNTAIN VIEW HEADQUATERS- CALIFORNIA

Office Spaces:
• Reception area
• Private Office
• Open cubicles
• Co-Working Space
• Printer room
• Mail Room
• Server Room
• Maintenance Room
Cafeterias
OATS
Formal Meeting Areas
In early 2004, Google undertook a strategic re-evaluation of its workplace processes.
Informal Meeting Areas They held an invited design competition, integrating highly focused software
Communal Areas engineering workspace within a support system of learning, collaboration, recreation,
and food facilities. There comes the CLIVE WILKINSON ARCHITECTS, who have
Toilet areas won the competition. They have designed the campus with a city scale in mind, which is
Parking areas very essential for such huge urban scaled building.
Gaming spaces
SITE FEATURES:
Site area: 35000002 ft
Built-up area; 6000 sq.m
climate - Hot semi-arid climate
project completed: 2009
Budget - $495 million
DESIGN PROCESS & CONCEPT:
CWA looked for opportunities in the existing landscaping, hardscape, connectivity of the campus, division of outdoor activities (3 unique environments) and any inside/outside
connections. Then they proposed ways in which these existing opportunities could be pushed to a new level to better serve the overall goals of the community.
As the result of the investigation, each of the existing four buildings, and their relationship to each other, and the campus in general, the various constraints, as well as opportunities
were discovered.
One of the most important features of the Googleplex is that its overall plan was designed to mimic the loosely structured nature of a university campus. Clive Wilkinson Architects
found that the nature of the company as well as the existing building complex was perfectly suited to merge the idea of workplace with the experiences found within an educational
environment.

DESIGN AND MATERIAL

The building is designed with exposed brick work and exposed concrete and steel. Smooth
Gray stones are used as a flooring in corridors. In courtyards and platforms unfinished stone
pavements are used. Like other buildings, interior walls are completely plastered, this
reduces cooling loss (absorbed by bricks). The new international centre building is designed
with exposed concrete wall. By using appropriate material® and design, EDI Provides
inviting environment for work, interaction and repose.
A sustainable energy-conserving environment was a high priority, and most building
materials used were either cradle-to-cradle products or contained high recycled content.
Doors culled from previous build-outs were used on the two-story tower elements as
windows, and open workstations were recycled product. To solve the need for a large
number of perimeter workrooms, the Design Team developed a glass-enclosed 3-person
workroom with absorbent tent ceilings to soften sound transmission. This 'Glass Tent' office
system not only satisfied privacy needs for concentrated work and retained access to light
and views, but it also provided a solution for rapid construction, accommodating Google's
immense expansion curve. The project won several design awards, including a national AIA
Honor Award.

All of these opportunities, as well as the infrastructure according to the current context, were
incorporated into the architectural solution for the Googleplex.

The process started with a unified master plan for the entire campus which incorporated the
language of a campus: outdoor sports activities, food - courts, a common, plazas, and a
park.
All of these opportunities, as well as the infrastructure according to the current context, were
incorporated into the architectural solution for the Googleplex
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FIG: THE MASTER PLAN
GOOGLE OFFICE CAMPUS DUBLIN:

LOCATION: Borrow Street, Ireland

ARCHITECTS: Evolution Design Architects.
PROJECT YEAR: 2011
TOTAL OFFCICE SPACE: 47,000 m2
Google Ireland opens the doors to its thriving new campus: Four buildings located in the heart of Dublin’s historic docklands district! With over 47’000 m2 of unique office space, the
campus represents an amazing workplace for Google’s ever-growing sales, marketing, finance and engineering teams, coming from more than 65 countries and speaking over 45
languages.

Master planned by the Swiss architecture studio Camenzind Evolution in collaboration with local firm Henry J. Lyons Architects, the campus represents the Google EU Headquarters
and serves as the centre for sales and finances in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
STIMULATING INNER CITY CAMPUS:
For the Masterplan the architects had to find a smart solution for the nearly impossible – to create a stimulating and interactive campus within a bustling environment in the midst of the
inner city. Apart from innovative office spaces, the Masterplan required the successful organisation of a multitude of additional functions, such as 5 restaurants, 42 micro kitchens and
communication hubs, game rooms, fitness centre, pool, wellness areas, conference, learning & development centre, tech stops, over 400 informal and formal meeting rooms and phone
booths, etc.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:
Sustainability is a key focus area for Google and indeed all Google real estate projects work to LEED accreditation. The Google Dublin Campus is currently awaiting the prestigious
LEED Gold and LEED Platinum certification.
The aim was to create a stimulating and interactive campus and to do this, besides the offices, the architects projected 5 restaurants, 42 micro kitchens, game rooms, fitness center, pool,
learning & development centre over 400 informal and formal meeting rooms. Google believes that working in a healthy and balanced environment that encourages interaction among
colleagues, can stimulate the creativity and innovation. Sustainability is another key focus area for Google and indeed all Google real estate projects work to LEED accreditation.
Pedrali has been selected to furnish with many products the public areas of the Google Campus: from plastic chairs Pasha, 3D-Colour and Kuadra stool, to Apple, Young, Twig
wooden chairs and Young and Woody stools. As well as the padded stool Cube. Regarding the tables you can find Stylus, Ypsilon and Inox.
SITE:

LOCATION:
The site is Located in Sholinganallur, OMR road at Chennai, Tamil Nādu.
Total Ground Area – 55 acers

SITE JUSTIFICATION:
Chennai is well known for IT parks and private enterprises and industrial
resource developments.
The site is Located in SEZ (Special Economic Zone) sector of Local planning area and site surrounded by residents and apartments that promotes the google employs to adopt in
it. the site is less exposed towards the crowdy national highway, because of the site profile less noise by the vehicular movement is audible from site.
DATA COLLECTION:

MEETING ROOMS AND SPACES

How space for meetings is designed and allocated is central to the advanced workplace. Meeting rooms that are shared, and can be booked, are taking the place of meeting spaces in
personal offices. Meeting spaces take up less space than meeting rooms, and they are more often furnished with lounging furniture - sofas, occasional chairs and even beanbags - than
enclosed space. Small meeting rooms, for up to four people, are in higher demand in most organisations than large rooms. Where presentations take place, more space will be needed for
audio-visual or video-conferencing equipment.
Workstations and offices (see 76) Offices cost more in space, construction and servicing than open-plan workstations, but offer individual privacy. Visual privacy may be achieved with
screens, but oral privacy requires walls, or partitions providing reasonable acoustic attenuation. Sizes of individual footprints vary greatly depending on culture, status and location.
The net size of a minimum workstation may be as little as 2.8 m2 (or even less in touch-down situations), with a general workstation .at 3.5 m2, and 6.5 m2 for managerial positions.
However, allowing for local circulation this will increase to the normal minimum of between 6 m2 and 9 m2 per person. The smallest individual office is usually about 12m2 net,
but cells for short-term work may be half that. Beyond this, the size of offices varies dramatically. The size of group and team rooms will depend on workstation number, size anD
configuration, and the amount and type of meeting space and storage that are included.
RECEPTION AREAS:
Reception may still be a desk by the door or at the end of an echoey marble hall, but increasingly reception areas are the heart of the organisation. The receptionist may well be
responsible for office co-ordination, diaries and the booking of space, as well as welcoming and directing visitors. Where the cafe is positioned alongside reception, it provides the
opportunity for visitor meetings outside any security girdle. With customer-focused businesses, there may be small meeting rooms adjacent to reception. Considerations include the
relationship between the street entrance and reception (with clear sight lines and screening to reduce draughts), visitor seating, toilets and refreshments, and displays of corporate
brochures, posters, awards or videos. Levels of security range from the receptionists having a good memory for faces, through various types of electronically controlled barriers, to the
inclusion of separate security desks with surfaces on which to check bags.

WORKSTATIONS AND OFFICES:

Offices cost more in space, construction and servicing than open-plan workstations, but offer
CSC individual privacy. Visual privacy may be achieved with screens, but oral privacy requires
walls, or partitions providing reasonable acoustic attenuation. Sizes of individual footprints
vary greatly depending on culture, status and location. The net size of a minimum
workstation may be as little as 2.8 m2 (or even less in touch-down situations), with a general
workstation .at 3.5 m2, and 6.5 m2 for managerial positions. However, allowing for local
circulation this will increase to the normal minimum of between 6 m2 and 9 m2 per person.
The smallest individual office is usually about 12m2 net, but cells for short-term work may
be half that. Beyond this, the size of offices varies dramatically. The size of group and team
rooms will depend on workstation number, size and configuration, and the amount and type
of meeting space and storage that are included.
RECEPTION AREA:
Reception Area With reception being the first - and often the only - introduction to an organisation, the quality of the furniture is especially important. Receptionists may work at standard
workstations, or use an innovative meet and greet approach, but more frequently they sit behind specially designed desks. Flat screens are helping to make these more inviting, and reduce
the amount of screening required. The purpose of these desks is to provide an efficient workstation while also allowing communication and surveillance. At the same time, they need to
conceal untidy paperwork and cabling as well as sheltering the users from draughts coming in from the street. Other furniture includes visitor seating, ranging from comfortable sofas and
chairs to small areas with chairs and a table for short meetings, and touch-down desks for short periods of computer based work. Stands may be provided to display promotional literature,
framing for posters or art works, and shelving for products.