Friday, 2 September 2011
Project Statement
Project Statement:
We believe political power holding by politicians in many terms is not used wisely and efficiently. Therefore the Australian political system should be restructured to distribute more power back to people who makes a living of the country. Moreover, rather than politicians, real national issues should be dealt by real wise people with specified professions who seriously contribute toward the nation.
We believe Canberra should have its unique identity. Parliament House as core reason why Canberra had been chosen and developed to be capital city it should be also more attractive and iconic. If consider Sydney’s character as a wealthy merchant, Melbourne as a creative artist, Brisbane as a sunny teenager and Perth as a conscientious engineer, what role should we identify Canberra? We allocate it to be a wise conductor and Parliament House is like his brain and hands, distributing wise strategies and correct tempos to all over the country very much like orchestrating a beautiful rhythm.
We believe Canberra as capital city should play as role model that educates people in both micro and macro ways. Environmental strategies are allocated to the Parliament House with willingness to keep and enhance Canberra’s garden city concept designed by Griffin. In various ways, stuffs and visitors would interact with Parliament House in sustainable ways, and hence these interactions will be distributed to all over the country through media or experience telling through visitors.
We believe parliamentary services can be gathered, modified, and then distributed according to the new Australian Constitution structure. The core of this distributed system is House of Strategy, where strategists from specific department announce and debate solutions of national issues. Outcome solution will go to House of validation, which replaced House of Representatives. Once a solution is validated by combinations of field professions, politicians and representatives of communities it will go to House of Senate for executive permissions. The solution will be send back to department for planning and scheduling. And at last stage, orders will be sending to local governments for execution.
Most existing infrastructures will be kept to serve their adjusted functions. Due to the expansion of parliament house, the shifting function of larger and smaller circle routes for better control towards the flow of traffic to and from parliament house. Limiting unsustainable transportation access and promoting a greener network of infrastructure within and around the parliament house. To maximise the efficiency of traffic flow, existing empty pass way around parliament were utilized to connect into the internal facilities.
To highlight the most significant infrastructure of our design, the sky bridge that serves as a medium that links House of Strategies and departments through a distributed form. The sky bridge stimulates a flexible social network between people from different fields, who pays great contribution towards the country’s new political system. Moreover, it is an essential infrastructure that boosts working and communication efficiency within the Parliament House.
We injected power and grandness to the new Parliament House through architectural strategy ‘scale’.
We provided the design with character and functionality through using ‘form’.
We have also used ‘harmony’ elements to emerge new design with existing buildings.
In summary, the new Parliament House is a symbolic architecture that represents the country and its new constitutional system, which serves the nation and its people with sincerity. It grants Canberra with wise and leading identity that would let citizens to feel proud of. Moreover, it is also playing a model role which educates people with positive living attitudes through sustainable and green design elements.
Diagram - proposed way of travel in and out of Parliament House
Transportation types: Directional (staff use for efficiency) & Circular (tourist use for touring)
Proposed Sky Bridge network is a hybrid system combining this two types of transportation route.
Investigation and proposal for new transportation infrastructure
This diagram illustrates a new plan for transportation to parliament house. Areas within inner circle are designated solely for green transportation provided by parliament house only, as an attempt to push and promote a more sustainable future. Staff and visitors' private cars are to parked outside the inner circle boundary attached to electrical dock to provide energy supply for lighting parliament house, road lights, water features etc by having solar panels on the car's roof.
Communication Systems
Communication system are very important as it is a tool or medium that brings people together in an efficient manner. Taking out the factors of distance, anyone from anywhere who are distributed can be still be linked on to a network sharing information. In terms of the new proposed political system, how information from the people of a country is transferred and translated into the foundations of a political agenda is vital.
Design Process- Forms (Sketches)
A random sketch of added layer of parliament house surrounded by distributed pods
Connecting concept diagram on physical Parliament House and Canberra's urban design pattern with random sketches of forms with some inspiration of a flying bird
(Land axis and Water axis alignment)
Form study cont.
Erecting a more visible tower on parliament house with a floating sky ring supported by tension cables
Form inspired by existing landscape roof of parliament house (slope element)
A rough perspective sketch of the front of parliament house with added central tower and sky ring
A detail consideration of sky bridge form and structure, also elements of the tower on side elevation.
Design Process- Diagrams (Sketches)
An analysis of functions for different users for new proposal of Parliament House design.
Initial sketch on the interpretation and physical definition of function and space. Distributed formation with sub domains linked on a logical network.
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Distributed Diagram
Distributed format linked together forming a network with a central core. Each domains form its own group of distributed network. Each sub-domain (different colours) is an intepretation of a specialised function.
Aboriginal Painting from TSART
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