The ‘office’ has gone through many different configurations over the last century. Throughout it all, from the typing pools of the 1940s, to Facebook’s cavernous HQ, the trend of open-plan offices persists. It never shows quite the same face: sometimes it’s a crammed, musty line of ancient desks, and sometimes it’s a hipster-friendly corporate playground overgrown by succulents.
With the tools available to us now, we can make buildings that capture that co-working structure. Spaces can be designed to be much more flexible. When a company structure requires co-working environments, we can create an interconnected series of spaces, instead of one big bullpen. This works on a human level, because we're operating in the smaller groups in which we naturally feel at ease.