Responding to the tech industry’s effect on San Francisco housing, Bay Area artist Alfred Twu has taken it upon himself to show what Silicon Valley tech campuses might look like if they converted their parking lots into accommodation for their employees.
Alongside mini-cities for Facebook and Google, Twu created these designs for iTown — with 13,000 apartments for Apple’s 13,000 Cupertino employees, ajoining the new Apple 2 campus.
It would certainly avoid some of the present problems associated with tech workers driving up housing costs in SF, but it’s also difficult to think that cutting off your perceived “elite” citizens would completely do away with all the resentment currently aimed at those working in the sector.
It’s also amusing to think of Jony Ive tearing down all existing Scott Forstall-designed buildings, stores, and meeting areas, to build a set of new iOS 7-inspired deskeumorphized ones.
Regardless, Twu’s designs are pretty neat. A few of them can be seen below, while the rest are available for viewing (alongside his other designs) on his website.
Source: Tech Company Housing Study
Via: FastCo Exist
