Architecture and design firm SmithGroupJJR designed their new offices, located in Chicago, Illinois.

With the impending expiration of its lease, the Chicago office of SmithGroupJJR took the opportunity to re-imagine its workplace. It treated itself as a client, conducting a series of workshops with user groups to examine the functionality of the current space, and better understand what elements users valued and what could be changed to improve the way teams would work in the future. From these studies, the team identified three main typologies: heads-down work, activity-based work and collaborative work.