Week 3 Exercise

For this weeks exercise we looked at at Infrastructure, Strategy and Presence. We broke in to groups again and started looking at what these ideas meant to us.


Infrastructure
One of the points that came out of our discussions about infrastructure was the idea of connections. This could be a physical connection such as the rail network. we discussed that maybe our part of our parliament building could travel on the rail network between cites so that other areas of australia can have a sense of connection to parliament. Maybe the buildings could be transported b site then unpacked and used?

Our group also looked at virtual infrastructure such as the National Broadband Network, this new service will allow a more seamless connection between parliament house and its public. Maybe this increased internet speed could allow interviews and meetings to be broadcast over the internet in real time rather than having to wait for huger video buffering times that are an issue with live streams today?

Our group also looked at the actual building at the site of parliament house. Do we really need a physical parliament house? could interactions be over the internet? may there could be several parliament houses spread over australia that are connected through a virtual network?

Presence

How do we create presence with our buildings? parliament house has a strong presence with strong classical architectural themes and a strong feeling of order in the building. Parliament house also is a subterranean building that is built into capital hill, this gives the building an interesting aesthetic quality and adds to the mystery of the building.

Parliament house also has really strong forms such as the pillars to the front of the structure and the large flag pole on top of the building.

Identity

How dose a building create identity? is it really import that it does? Should we build buildings from timber and tin because that is whats recognisable as australian architecture? or should we look deeper into what makes a building australian? 

Its is important for a parliment house to create some form of identity, I don't belive that this has to be Australian identity but it would be good to have the building reflect that it is a goverment building. This can be done by flags and government forms and icons, but it can also be achieved by more traditional forms of architecture eg classical.