Project Drafting

Capital Strategy

• Your chosen strategy (flexible, mobile, distributed or virtual) was well investigated.
• Your idea creatively identified problems and issues associated with ways capital city / parliament worked today in Australia and a speculation was made to suggest your idea could lead to an innovative solution.
• You summarised your investigation well and communicated all necessary information clearly and creatively with images and diagrams in your panel.
• Your blog communicated your idea development well.

Our chosen strategy is Flexibility and throught the past few weeks we have investigated many different ways in which a structure can be flexible and the different catagories that flexibility fall under such as adaptation(see previous blog for more catagoiries also a select few are on the presentation panels)

We identified a problem within the stucture of parliament that we can address through our chosen strategy. This problem is public presence. We suggest that a type of publi forum/Q&A can be used to combat this problem and a flexible space would be the ideal way to provide an architectural solution

This diagram shows where the problem lies (the arrows) and where our solution is based (the question mark)









Capital Infastructure and Presence

• Your investigation to identify how your strategy could make use of the existing and/or new infrastructural support was good, unique and innovative.
• You made a good effort to identify how your chosen strategy could have its own unique presence and identity for people to identify that it constituted Australian Capital.
• You summarised your investigation well and communicated all necessary Information clearly and creatively with images and diagrams in your panel.
• Your blog communicated your idea development well.

As we are dealing with parliament and not Canberra as a whole we chose to focus on the infastructure and presence issues that are directly related to parliament house.
We have previously identified that the building will be our main focus and we looked at the current layout and design. We also believe that because we are introducing a more public focus on parliament accessability to and around parliament is a key infastructural issue. Canberra is a realtively small city and the first fully designed garden city in Australia(the newer outer suburbs are creating a problem) and most people are happy to drive are ride around. Comparing the current population to the anticipated population for the cities design Canberra is exceeding it's capacity. Griffin (Canberra's designer) proposed that new linked garden cities should be added when this happened however this is not happening and the city is just sprawling into it's surrounds.
The presence of Canberra a parliament house is a big issue globally as not many iternational people can identify Canberra as Australias capital. 

This diagram shows the simple combination of history and culture with a cities structure that create a disiarable place (which canberra is currently not)
Another study on our panels shows how many cityies can be identified by just their skylines.

This diagram shows the cultural presnece within parliament which we believe is lacking on a national and more importantly international scale.

The flagpole atop of Parliament house is the being of what could be great capital presence. National we can identify with it however the international presence is lacking





Architectural Types and Purposes

This diagram shows the gaps that we have identified in the parliamentry structure and where we propose our architectural entity will be most effective.

We would like our Architectrural solution to bring Australian parliament into the 21st Century by both its form and function inside and outside of the parliamentry system.


 
 
Architectural Presence and Identity

I believe that presence is a key issue in improving the public presnece in Canberra and the national interest in parliaments activities.







A very intersting study I looked at relating to Architectural identity was the design for the Burj Al Arab(know world wide for it's unique design). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wra7o6gb6Wc#t=04m27s

The section I was very interested in was where the Architect shows how many of the worlds most famous buildings can be drawn very simply but still be recognised. I believe that something like this could dramatically enhance Canberras presence in the world.