Confidential Technology Client Campus

San Jose, California

A Tech Campus That Puts Digital Memory in Motion

This high-performance campus creates spaces that support rigorous engineering work and foster human connection, while positioning the company for what’s next.
HIGHLIGHTS
  • 175,000-Square-Foot Engineering Workplace Inspired by the Company’s Technological Innovations
  • Connected Pathways Encourage Movement and Chance Encounters
  • Flexible Engineering, Meeting, and Collaboration Environments
  • Indoor-Outdoor Spaces Across Campus Anchored in Wellness and Socialization
  • Dedicated Amenity Building with Exposed Mass Timber Construction
  • Large-Scale Dining Hall with Market-Style Food Program
  • Skylit Central Volume Enhances Daylight and Wayfinding
Challenge

As technology companies face growing pressure to build campuses that attract talent and foster community, the stakes in Silicon Valley are especially high. This confidential tech company, known for its pioneering data and memory technology, needed to transform a historically agrarian site into a modern engineering campus — one that honored the company’s legacy, supported complex technical work, and felt unmistakably human.

Solution

Gensler designed a 175,000-square-foot engineering workplace anchored by two buildings: an engineering building and Orchard Commons, a centralized amenity hub. The engineering building’s layered, reflective façade draws from the company’s data and memory technology, while choreographed pathways promote movement and spontaneous connection. Orchard Commons features a large-scale, market-style dining hall and reinterprets the barn through exposed mass timber. Indoor-outdoor spaces extend into orchard-inspired courtyards with shaded gathering zones.

Impact

The campus transforms how engineers work and connect, making movement a natural part of the day and chance encounters a regular experience. The engineering building draws on the company’s data and memory technology as design inspiration, linking the company’s past and future. The Orchard Commons anchors daily life on campus, offering a warm, human-scaled place to share meals, build community, and foster a genuine sense of belonging.

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