Centre for Virtual Engineering designed by UNStudio, Contemporary companies, particularly those in the creative industries, are bringing about substantial change in the ways in which we work today. They are fully embracing changes which promote and stimulate creative work processes through communication, experimentation and new forms of collaboration. There is an understanding that – alongside ever improving connections to external information resources – encouraging communication and knowledge sharing within individual companies increases the potential for more creative and experimental approaches to working. This results in a better understanding of the potential for the optimal organization of human resources and in turn, a workforce that is stimulated to play an essential part in the creation of improved output. Photography: Christian Richters
This understanding is no longer limited to the creative industries alone, however. As one of the most important internationally operating research institutes in the world, the Fraunhofer Institute requires a building which not only accommodates and reflects the work it carries out but also stimulates its workforce and encourages new working methodologies.

UNStudio?s design response is to apply its research into the potential to expand contemporary understandings of new working environments into a wider arena and thereby affect a design approach that creates working environments which stimulate communication, experimen...