Before I go into too much detail designing, I should probably clarify what kind of work actually goes on within a corporate headquarters! With five companies under one room (and most probably a collection of subsidiary branches all around Brisbane), things may get a bit hectic if I don't clarify in what way these people will be collaborating to improve Brisbane.
In our previous assignment, we established the different areas in which the Big 5 would contribute to Brisbane: GE would provide most of the financial (insurance, banking, grants) and energy support, as well as help support the city's media production/distribution; Google would control advertising/marketing internally as well as externally (tourism), and help develop and improve the city's software (to complement GE hardware); P&G is responsible for beauty and health; IKEA hospitality and accommodation infrastructure; and McDonalds working on hospitality too, as well as medical and entertainment infrastructure.
As a lot of these areas overlap or complement each other, it is imperative that these companies collaborate with each other to achieve harmonious results for the city, which remains the primary program of my architectural design. The main collaborative fields are Tourism and Advertising, Hospitality, Health and Funding.
Due to this cross-interdisciplinary approach to running Brisbane, the spaces must remain flexible and adaptable: different teams will be working on different projects at different times. There would be no way to predict how many people/which specialisations would be needed for any given project as Brisbane grows.
As well as providing flexible workstations, allowing people to rearrange themselves depending on the project and team, more formal meeting spaces would need to be provided so that information gathering and conclusions can be drawn from individual works. One idea is that people can transport their workstations into a meeting room (rather like your iPad acting as your computer screen, then detaching for you to bring to your meeting). This however still relies on the individual collection of information, where I believe that an 'uploading' of information onto a central server/device would be more beneficial. Considering that most decision making within this building would be based around the improvement of the city, an interactive panoramic view of the city may be a way to translate and collate information.
If not used as a 'working' tool, it could definitely be used as a communication tool for final approvals/client meetings/community engagement.
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