Abstract
This thesis fundamentally questions what the workplace will be in the near future. With the emerging local trend of a more independent workforce, plus global trends of horizontal organisational structures and urban office buildings with more informal spaces, the future workplace will focus highly on informal interaction which leads to the economic benefits of knowledge sharing, team-building and job satisfaction. Thus, this thesis proposes a new-built office building close to Singapore’s Central Business District catering primarily to startups and freelancers. The affordance of informal interaction is provided on three scales: with the public, between teams and between colleagues. The design combines computational methods of Space Syntax with Spatial Cognition and Visual Analysis to ensure the various shared spaces have the right degree of proximity, privacy and permission for healthy informal interactions, without compromising on space efficiency and worker productivity.