Snøhetta has devised a masterplan for car company Ford's research campus in Dearborn, Michigan that features curvy glass buildings, green spaces and sidewalks.
Snøhetta developed the Master Plan for Ford's Research & Engineering (R&E) Center in Dearborn, Michigan, where the American motor company is headquartered.
Company founder Henry Ford II developed the initial plan for R&E ? Ford's first campus dedicated to research and product development ? in 1946.  It expanded over the years, with new facilities like the Henry Ford II World Headquarters and the Rouge Complex offices, and spread widely over southeast Michigan.
Snøhetta created the masterplan for Ford's research facility in Dearborn
Ford enlisted Snøhetta to develop a masterplan to consolidate research facilities to the Dearborn campus, better integrate teams and create opportunities for interaction. Studies were performed with Ford employees and the local community to create a plan that "conceives of Ford's natural and built environments, employees, neighbouring communities, and the movement between them as symbiotic parts of one Ford 'ecosystem'," according to Snøhetta.
"Through the efforts of the Master Plan, Ford's employees that are currently dispersed throughout Dearborn and southeast Michigan will be consolidated in state-of-the-art research and production spaces that facilitate the easy flow and circulation of ideas and catalyse opportunities for collaboration, colocation, and...