How does the design of a building influence us?

When you think of the space you work in the last factor you believe to effect the quality is the building you are in. There are two specific factors when it comes to measuring the potential output; through a Q score (a measure of familiarity with the team) and the notion of proximity (how close individuals who are working together are). Where there have been several instances of success through a good combination of these factors there is one building that stands from the crowd. It is MIT's building 20.

Building 20 was 250,000 square feet across three floors and was initially created with Asbestos panels on the outdoors. Despite its' disgusting view the individuals who frequented there referred to it '...as one of the most creative spaces of all time...'. Sadly in 1998 the building was demolished, but the secret that building 20 had offered us remained. During the time of use building 20 had a remarkable way of forcing students/faculty of one study to run into students/faculty of another. Due to these remarkable run ins many great ideas were sparked and in turn building 20 earned the reputation it did.

One such invention one might recognize that came out of building 20 was a pair of Bose headphones. Amar Bose had his start in the early days of building 20 and proceeded to actually design the first Bose speaker model in the building. This in turn led him to an international corporation that now does business practically all over the world. Other such products building 20 can be responsible for: video games, high-speed photography, and even the physics in the waves of a microwave. Building 20 took the sub conscious design and perfectly placed it for the ultimate success.