An Orange County, California, entrepreneur, Manny Bojorquez has directed successful ventures that encompass the automotive equipment, food manufacturing, health care, and legal services markets. Manny Bojorquez currently leads, among other companies, HyperCar Development, which focuses on producing customized products designed to enhance the performance of McLaren racing cars in particular.
The McLaren is an ultra-high-status make of grand prix racer with individual vehicles typically selling for six figures, some close to $1 million or more.
The McLaren Group at the McLaren Technology Centre in Surrey, England, manufacture the cars in a state-of-the-art facility whose design and precision performance standards are in keeping with those of the vehicles themselves.
Close to the town of Woking, architects Foster + Partners created a circle-shaped central site, then separated it into two distinct black-and-white, yin-and-yang-shaped portions. Reviewing the main structure in 2003, The Guardian noted that the yin-yang configuration so noticeable from the air is in fact the interlocking of a curve-shaped factory building nestled against an artificial lake.
The McLaren plant could not be more different, in style and in its awareness of its environment, from the smoke-churning car manufacturing plants that typified the 20th century.
The elegant complex features a two-story, dome-topped visitor learning center designed to make the company an integral part of its local community and a focal point for high-technology manufacturing that can serve as a benchmark for other carmakers. Saplings screen the factory from the road, and the native fauna are at home in the surrounding greenbelt.
