Post Critical Presentation!

It has become apparent that the way in which i went to develop an Architectural solution was an forced effort to attempt to create architectural infrastructure of a more traditional means. The building I have created became an architectural element that is really suitable for any situation. It became an traditional piece architecture accept with obvious major floors.

Looking at it now I have realised that I forced an architectural element for the sake of designing a piece of architecture, rather then looking at more unconventional precedence. I think that the solution we are looking for is not an architectural solution as such, its more a solution of man power, political labour v's everyday people labour. I believe there are major problems that are do be uncovered here, rather then a typical architectural solution, which I definitely forced into this problem as a solution.

I think a much more viable solution wold be to restructure the current parliamentary system. I spoke about levels of importance for issues and how the more intense / large the issues the higher up a leadership hierarchy the issue would go. I think this then become more an issue involved in how our current issues are being solved rather then connecting back to Parliament house. It wouldn't be until a large issue such as a carbon tax came into context that connecting back to parliament would become such an issue.

Lets create a hypothetical situation that is, just that. The current issue of the carbon tax is being debated within Parliament, and there are politicians from around Australia that must voice their own opinions that have been derived from their own people, from their own community. By implementing a system that allows each politician from their own region to represent their own people, we will be able to manage the amount of people that members of Parliament house will have to talk to.

Essentially everyone will be able to voice their word, through their representative. There would be no gain in allowing everyone to talk directly to parliament house. This would not be achievable, because of the amount of Australians to the amount of politicians within parliament house. This would also mean that if there was one person that has his own opinion about an issue, that no one else agrees on, this person would not be bogging down the system and wasting our time.

This would actually mean that what the representative politician from the region would be voicing would be an agreed consensus that would have to be voted by the people, and voice to parliament house via the regions representative politician.

What if this person now wanted to connect to Canberra, to parliament house? He would then have to go to Canberra to do so. The most efficient way to do so, would simply be to retrofit existing infrastructure with the latest virtual equipment.

What my building was, was an attempt to provide the infrastructure for politicians to connect to these other politicians around Australia.

This was simply an arrangement of meetings rooms, that were different to those they were connecting with. (to create a situation that would give the impression they were together, a good start would be to make both the separate environments, exactly the same). Same Furniture, carpet, sized room, size table etc.

I now believe that there is a social aspect related to my building. By creating new infrastructure that many politicians will congregate and meet at, I believe there are huge positive effects associated with creating new infrastructure, it provides a node, an element of presence involved with creating a virtual connection system.

However, If I would to completely redesign this building, it would simply be an area, not necessary one individual building, but rather a location that provided the infrastructure alone, and maybe some social spaces, where work relationships are built. Why does it have to be a building? Other then for reasons of shelter, a device to protect people from natural elements, this buildings role will be to house the infrastructure.

But why is there the need to have a room with these spaces with in it. Can they not be a number of very small buildings around one social area, that still provides the interaction between colleagues and a social aspect with we as humans crave and rely on.

The shelter could simply cover the virtual infrastructure, and the social area. There would need to be amenities, and room for these services that will need to be house, and which is normally done so with building products and elements that create the structure. Pretty quickly we are beginning to create a building.