The concept of the building,” Oppenheimer said, “is collaboration and fluidity. It’ll provide a very open-spaced system, so that at one point in the day you may be in offices on one side of the circle and find yourself on the other side later that day.

Mercury News got an exclusive sneak peek at a scale model of Apple’s new “spaceship” campus, which goes before the Cupertino City Council Tuesday for an initial vote. The photos provide some context to Apple’s impressive proposal – not just for the spaceship-shaped building, but for the entire ecosystem that Apple plans to grow around it.

Check out the full gallery here, and a video of the model on YouTube.