최악의 지진에도 견딜 수 있는 50억 불 짜리 애플 파크 캠퍼스 VIDEO: Apple's $5 billion 'spaceship campus' is specially designed to survive even the worst of California's earthquakes, exec reveals

Apple's $5 billion 'spaceship campus' is specially designed to survive even the worst of California's earthquakes, exec reveals

The spaceship structure of Apple Park, the tech giant's futuristic campus, isn't the only otherworldly thing about it, as the building reportedly doesn't even rest on the Earth's surface

Apple Park sits on 692 steel saucers to prevent damage during an earthquake

It uses base-isolation tech, so that the structure isn't attached to the ground

Jony Ive, Apple's design chief, told the New York Times that he and co-founder Steve Jobs thought extensively about how to protect the campus from tremors 

최악의 지진에도 견딜 수 있는 50억 불 짜리 애플 파크 캠퍼스   거대한 미래 캠퍼스인 애플 파크는 '우주선'과 같은 모양 때문에 그 자체로 디자인상감이다.  애플의 수석 디자인 책임자 조니 아이브는 뉴욕 타임즈와의 인터뷰에서 이 건물이 캘리포니아의 악명 높은 지진으로부터 완전히 보호되도록 하기 위해 692개의 강철 받침대에 놓여 있다고 말했다. 그것은 빌딩이 지진으로 인한 치명적인 지진에 견딜 수 있게 해주는 베이스 절연 기술이라고 불리는 공학의 한 종류에 의존한다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Cheol Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

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By ANNIE PALMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 23:43 BST, 4 June 2019 | UPDATED: 23:43 BST, 4 June 2019

Apple Park, the tech giant's futuristic campus, is a design feat in and of itself due to its 'spaceship'-like shape. 

But the spaceship campus' circular structure isn't the only otherworldly thing about it, as the building reportedly doesn't even rest on the Earth's surface. 

Jony Ive, Apple's chief design officer, told the New York Times that in order to make sure the building was fully protected from California's notorious earthquakes, it rests on 692 steel saucers. 

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It relies on a type of engineering called base-isolation technology, which enables a building to be able to withstand potentially catastrophic tremors from earthquakes. 

A behind-the-scenes photo reveals Apple Park's enormous curved glass walls up close. The glass used on the campus and seen in this image is 'the largest piece of curved glass in the world', according to the company's chief designer Jony Ive

The saucers are located two stories beneath where Apple employees are busy toiling away on the latest iPhone or Mac computer. 

During an earthquake, the building slides back and forth on the saucer, moving as much as four feet in either direction, according to the Times.  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7105351/Apples-5-billion-spaceship-campus-designed-able-withstand-earthquakes.html

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