Gathering Brief - Inspiration for my Design

So it's the day before mid semester crit, and I'm about to get stuck into some serious drawing. But before I do, I thought I'd stop in with some ideas for my design :D We had a quick briefing today to just clarify a few points, which helped me a lot in terms of my propostition.
I've decided on my four colleagues for my Architectural Firm! Introductions?

• First, there's the Engineer. This is the guy who brought that building from the matrix with him... I guess he's going to need his own office, and after googling "what does an engineer need?" (original, I know), a lot of sites said that they need their own work room, to test out theories and gadgets and other ground-breaking, awesome stuff. So i guess my engineer dude is going to need that as well!
• Secondly, there's the Graphic Designer. A person to do all the cool CAD work and who knows a thing or two about all of the architectural software. They will also work closely with the Marketer, because thye put a visual face to a project that can be used in the marketing for the business. She's the one with a thing for doors, and demands this exciting and original threshold. As always, she'll need an office. What else might she need? Apparently a studio is a necessesity, to test out design ideas.
• There's a builder involved in the project, and he demands that there be a map with all the needed services mapped out so that everything is easily accessible to him, in terms of materials and other services. Once again, he'll get an office.... and i guess he's going to need a workshop as well, for all DIY needs.
• Lastly there is the Marketer, responsible for all the advertising and publicising of the firm. They can handle some of the finances for the business as well. They get their own office, with a room for meetings with the other colleagues to discuss business oppurtunites and also organise advertising campaigns.
• Then there's me, I guess. The Architect, designing this whole building where all of this is going to happen! What do I need? Well right now it's definately some inspiration. The tutors told me to have a look at some designs from the Japanese Metabolist era (so 1950s-60s), because when i discussed my design ideas with them they thought I had some similarities to that kind or Architecture! I googled round and did a bit of research. Here's what i found:

Courtesy of Wiki:
"In the late 1950s a small group of young Japanese architects and designers joined forces under the title of "Metabolism". Their visions for cities of the future inhabited by a mass society were characterized by large scale, flexible, and expandable structures that evoked the processes of organic growth. In their view, the traditional laws of fixed form and function were obsolete. Metabolism arose in post-World War II Japan, and so much of the work produced by the movement is primarily concerned with housing issues.
The group's work is often called technocratic and their designs are described as avant-garde with a rhetorical character. The work of the Metabolists has often been compared to the unbuilt designs of Archigram"

Need some pictures to get a better idea!






These are pretty inspirational designs, and surprisingly I hadn't ever seen them before, nor heard of the term 'Japanese Metabolists'. But it's definately given me some inspiration.... so I guess I can go start my drawings now!