Common Ground Part 1 Project 2021 Muhammad Syafiq Bin Muhamad Ayyoob National University of Singapore | Singapore The project envisions an Open Building Lab that provisions opportunities for quiet, focused work to support solitude thinking and creation - an important component of creative work - within a bustling and collaborative research environment.The prevailing trend for such a typology is to provide varied and collaborative work areas where users can come together in a bustling environment to exchange and generate ideas. However, workplace design also needs to provide a balance between collaborative-private spaces to preserve the moments of focused work needed by workers. Not only that, quiet space is important for workers to break away from the bustle, to be alone in solitude, to have a space of mental respite - all of which are crucial to the overall wellbeing of users.Through the narrative of a Bamboo Research Facility, the project explores how form, spatial configuration, scale, materiality, furniture arrangements, facade systems, and atmosphere can be controlled and deployed methodologically to support the experience of collaboration and quietude, striving to be a place that caters to user well-being and where the beauty and possibilities of bamboo can be experienced by all. Muhammad Syafiq Bin Muhamad Ayyoob Tutor(s) Razvan Ghilic-Micu