The Vault-Tec Industries building was a nearly 20-story skyscraper in Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Vault-Tec Industries division of Vault-Tec Corporation.
Background[]
This building was the center of Vault-Tec's southern California operations, under Barb Howard and Bud Askins.[1] It was here that both of the Vault-Tec executives offered some of the largest US corporations the opportunity to run social experiments in their Vaults, in a secret meeting in a chamber beneath the building.[Meta 1] Despite the secrecy surrounding the meeting, the room was not soundproofed, allowing Cooper Howard to listen in on the meeting through his wife's Pip-Boy, while waiting in one of the suites reserved for guests.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
“The basement layer was based on Dr. Strangelove, the movie, with the light, roundtable, and cement room. It was fun to do. That was in the middle of Manhattan in a theater, so we had to use whatever we could to pull all that stuff together, because you know we shot in New York and also in Namibia and Utah, all to do LA.”— Howard Cummings[Meta 1]
- The exterior scenes were shot at the Fordham University's Westchester campus around January 18th, 2023.[Meta 2] The entire superstructure was digitally added in post-processing, and the campus was selected based on the Vault-Tec Regional HQ in Boston, with a West Coast twist.[Meta 1]
- The arrangement of the conference room is deliberately evoking the war room in Dr Strangelove, one of the classic movies dealing with the concept of nuclear war. In the movie, the titular Dr Merkwurdigliebe actually proposes the construction of nuclear shelters not dissimilar to Vaults in the final act. Unlike the exterior and suite shots, the conference was filmed in a Manhattan movie theater.[Meta 1]
Gallery[]
Superstructure (all CGI)
Ground floor (dressed-up campus building)
Composite image showing the entire building
One of the suites in the building
The double-storey conference room
References[]
- ↑ Bud Askins: "Mr. Howard, great work today."
Cooper Howard: "Ah. Oh, thanks. Thanks, man."
Bud Askins: "Bud Askins. I oversee our Southern California operations."
Cooper Howard: "Ah."
Bud Askins: "I, uh, came over to Vault-Tec in Q3 after a ten-year stint at West Tek."
Cooper Howard: "West Tek."
Bud Askins: "It's a defense contractor."
Cooper Howard: "Oh, I'm, uh, very familiar with you guys. You designed the T-45 power armor."
Bud Askins: "First of its kind. No, I-I oversaw the-the rollout. You know, the design flaws were ridiculous, but they sure looked great."
Cooper Howard: "I wore the T-45 when we almost lost the great state of Alaska to the Reds. Those design flaws of yours cost a lot of good men and women their lives."
Bud Askins: "Yeah. Product management was never my bag. I'm more focused on HR R&D now. Overseeing workflow optimization of management timelines. I'm all about scale. Most people think scale means increasing global market share. That's thinking in three dimensions, and I'm talking about four. Because what is the ultimate weapon to destroy your competition? It's not outselling them. It's not outsmarting them. It's time."
Cooper Howard: "Hmm."
Bud Askins: "Time is the ultimate weapon."
Cooper Howard: "Uh-huh."
Bud Askins: "Yeah. Sounds complicated, but the future of all humanity comes down to one word."
Cooper Howard: "Yeah, what's that?"
Bud Askins: "Management."
Cooper Howard: "Well, I'm awful happy for you, Buck."
Bud Askins: "Bud. Bud Askins."
("The Trap") - ↑ Fallout TV series, Season 1, Episode 8: "The Beginning"
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