BBC Media Village, White City, London, UK

Briefing

The briefing process included various techniques such as:

• Interviewing the key stakeholders and defining their divergent requirements.
• Creating accessible diagrammatic “cartoons” as an engaging way to illustrate the business aspiration.
• Creating interactive questionnaires—canvassing a wider work-force user opinion.
• Creating ‘test fit’ drawings- defining the size and scale of the Broadcast Centre.
• Locating a suitable site, from UK-wide options.
• Trialing of new physical working environments in advance of constructing the building. This defined the brief for “fitting out” the new centre.
• Creating a masterplan strategy that included additional property requirements.