NVIDIA

Overview

Opportunity

Solution

Impact

Team

NVIDIA’s Voyager headquarters blurs workplace and nature, creating a collaborative campus shaped by daylight, landscape, and spaces designed for choice.

Location

Santa Clara, California

Client

NVIDIA Corporation

Expertise

Technology Climate Action & Sustainability Office Developers

Opportunity

NVIDIA needed a headquarters that could embody innovation, sustainability, and culture while helping thousands of employees connect at scale.

When successful companies decide to create a new headquarters, they put an important stake in the ground — one that will represent their unique brand, values, and culture, while also taking into consideration future adaptability. They want a space that’s the physical embodiment of who they are and what they stand for. NVIDIA, the Silicon Valley tech giant known for its pioneering GPU-accelerated computing driving innovation in AI, wanted a building that would bring its commitment to innovation, sustainability, and inclusivity to life — and remind employees that they’re part of a bigger story.

Why This Matters

01
Collaboration at Scale
The headquarters had to move beyond housing teams, creating circulation, adjacency, and shared amenities that help employees encounter one another naturally.
02
Culture Made Visible
The building needed to express NVIDIA’s values, making innovation, sustainability, and inclusivity tangible while reminding employees they are part of a larger story.
03
Choice and Connection
The workplace needed to support focused work, informal gatherings, and cross-team collaboration without separating employees from nature.

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Solution

Inspired by chip design, the campus became a network of visible connections where ideas, teams, and movement could flow freely.

NVIDIA’s core belief is that its people are its greatest asset, so the company enlisted Gensler to design a headquarters that would provide workers with spaces they need to push the creative envelope. Taking a cue from chip design, we designed NVIDIA’s campus to be a network of connections. Previous compartmentalized departments now share large open floorplates connected by highly visible staircases. The design fosters impromptu interactions with multiple platforms and outdoor workspaces that facilitate creative thinking while showcasing NVIDIA’s commitment to sustainability. Natural daylighting, PV panels, and other sustainable strategies make this a LEED Gold building.

From brief to build: how an outdoor workplace, solar trellis, and mountain-like workplace turn connection into a campus journey.

Driven by the question, “How do you get people to work in nature all day?” the design team shaped NVIDIA II as a workplace of exploration and discovery. The process centered on bringing the outdoors into the everyday work experience: a backyard, elevated treehouses, a photovoltaic trellis, and a mountain-like interior organized around basecamp, cabins, valleys, and gathering spaces. Each move translated landscape, daylight, choice, and connection into a workplace that supports different scales of focus, collaboration, and movement.

Like Working Under a Tree

The climate of Santa Clara allows for a true indoor-outdoor work environment by blurring the boundaries of inside and outside.

Impact

Voyager positions NVIDIA’s campus as a new benchmark for workplace experience, translating company culture into a high-performance environment for discovery and connection.

What Changed Because of This

01
Workplace Experience
Employees gained large open floorplates, visible circulation, outdoor workspaces, and varied gathering areas that support collaboration and focused work.
02
Environmental Performance
Photovoltaic panels, daylight strategies, efficient systems, and water reuse support the project’s LEED Gold target and operational performance goals.
03
Campus Identity
The headquarters has become a highly recognizable Silicon Valley workplace, expressing NVIDIA’s culture through architecture, landscape, and collaborative spatial networks.

Recognition

01

Business Insider

Coverage highlights Voyager’s futuristic 750,000-square-foot workplace, outdoor spaces and greenery, as well as Gensler’s design concept centered on employee choice.

02

Azure Magazine

The article focuses on NVIDIA’s outdoor workplace, treehouses and photovoltaic canopy, as well as the collaboration between Gensler and Hood Design Studio.

03

The Mercury News

Design historian Barry Katz highlights NVIDIA’s campus as a strong example of Silicon Valley architecture that reflects company culture through form and design.

Team

Project Leadership

Hao Ko

Hao is Gensler's Global Director of Design and a Regional Design Principal, focusing on building a dynamic practice through an open and collaborative culture. An inquisitive architect by nature, he is passionate about transforming experiences through deep research, the craft of technical excellence, and rigorous intellectual thought, all while striving to design beautiful places that change people's lives for the better.

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Philippe Paré

Philippe Paré is the Co-Managing Principal for Gensler’s Europe region. Based in the Paris office, Philippe plays a dual role, driving the growth of the Paris office and Gensler’s business across France, while helping to expand the firm’s European presence.

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FAQ

01

What is the scope of the project?

The project is 750,000 SF / 69,677 SM.

02

When was the project completed?

The 750,000-square-foot project reached substantial completion in February, with final project completion recorded in March 2022.

03

What is the central design idea?

The workplace blurs indoor and outdoor environments, using landscape, daylight, circulation, and varied work settings to encourage choice and collaboration.

04

What sustainability strategies are included?

Strategies include photovoltaic panels, daylighting, energy-efficient systems, green walls, water reuse, low-water vegetation, and LEED Gold targeting.

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Related Expertise

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NVIDIA’s Voyager headquarters blurs workplace and nature, creating a collaborative campus shaped by daylight, landscape, and spaces designed for choice.

NVIDIA needed a headquarters that could embody innovation, sustainability, and culture while helping thousands of employees connect at scale.

Why This Matters

Inspired by chip design, the campus became a network of visible connections where ideas, teams, and movement could flow freely.

From brief to build: how an outdoor workplace, solar trellis, and mountain-like workplace turn connection into a campus journey.

Voyager positions NVIDIA’s campus as a new benchmark for workplace experience, translating company culture into a high-performance environment for discovery and connection.

What Changed Because of This