Office, a public office.

In the meeting, I finally know that we are working in an office. We are not student anymore ,instead,we are postgraduate ,are research student.
I have always been wondering what will be called of the place where we read, we surf on line to search information,we write; a place of half-privacy. It is an office where we must finish our work,our project,during which we must go to the lab to validate our ideas and make something out of our ideas.