Week 13 Feed Back

After talking Yasu, it has become obvious to myself now that I have designed a major element of this building for reasons of symbolic nature. The two walls which hold the building together were an initial thought to symbolise the current parliament house, and mimic that design. Refer to images posted on blog directly after this blog. I am going to completely revisit the existing design, and provide functional reasoning to why design decisions have been made. For example, I am now going to look at how this site can provide a public transport hub for people wishing to visit the Parliamentary area, which can include Old Parliament, New Parliament, and the Virtual parliament.

Incorporating Robs pods into the building, we can provide an example of how this pods will be delivered into the hot spots around Australia.

How do people get there? Do they drive, take public transport, walk…

This building will as much become a transport hub for the entire parliamentary area. Local transport hub for this area, they can start their journey here.

Provide streamline access to the building, and streamline direction to the function of the building.

This building will be acting as an educational facility to the general public, this is a new system which must be learned by the public, they must be able to see what occurs when a a pod is activated and used by members. There can be public meetings, private meetings, which provide different levels of privacy, and function. those which are private, can show people who is in there, however they can not hear what is being said. The public ones, they can see, hear and even talk in if possible.

Upstairs will provide conventional office space.

• Ground floor will provide completely unconventional style meeting rooms, will display the pods working...
• Education of the new system, provide information about meetings occurring, outcomes of meetings, maybe on large screens, request of information (public information only).
• This public area will allow public to walk with big name politicians, mix the public with those who they will be working with.
• Provide an area of semi leisure, for eating etc. For those that are working there as well.
• Provide an access hub to the area, must be functional to public transport.

This buildings shape will be dominated by the requirement to provide seamless access to the building, which will then provide seamless direction to the function of both this building as well as the function of the initial idea.