Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science, gives attention how teams works in the science research community that can be easily translated into a guide for teams responsible for the physical environment for learning on a campus. Whether it be focusing on new or repurposed spaces or as part of an ongoing institutional focus on learning spaces, reports such as this are important. For example: they define team as: two or more individuals with different roles and responsibilities, who interact socially and interdependently within an organizational system to perform tasks and accomplish common goals. Then they illustrate the complexity of collaboration.
See research on Team Science and articles on collaboration from American Psychologist.