Ford Central Campus Building
Dearborn, MI
The Central Campus Building (CCB) will serve as Ford’s new center for product engineering, design, and development. Employees will be given a place to come together and facilitate the easy flow and circulation of ideas, supporting Ford’s goal to lead the industry into the future of mobility. The CCB was designed as an interconnected workplace of the future, catalyzing opportunities for health, collaboration, co-location, and product innovation. The CCB’s architecture combines social and accessible amenity spaces, collaborative and closely-knit workplaces, as well as state-of-the-art spaces for design, fabrication, and testing. The building’s planning optimizes team adjacencies, balances individual and collaborative workspaces, centralizes equipment and services, integrates advanced technology, and streamlines the movement of people and products. Its simple arrangement of size-tailored floor plates and interstitial courtyards create connections across floors, opening to daylight and minimizing travel distances while connecting employees together. The building also creates a new public face for Ford opposite notable landmarks such as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and a new community asset with its offering of public amenities and accessible landscapes. From plazas and courtyards to paths and gardens, the campus landscape celebrates seasonal, climatic, and social changes, immersing users in an evolution of textured, colorful, and fragrant environments. These landscapes are also designed to be productive as places for work, habitat, horticulture, and community.
a workplace of the future that catalyzes wellness, collaboration, co-location & innovation.
This project was completed while Josh Dannenberg was at Snøhetta.
Renderings by Plomp & Methanoia.