Where Is The Place?: Week 5: Architectural Presence and Identitied

In this week tutorial, we have some discussion about the creative investigation into the architectural entity can be identified and perceived as the Parliament House by residents and visitors. Through our research we discovered that Parliament House presently houses over 2000 car parks underground for its visitors and employees. Our proposal is to take a more environmentally friendly approach to this space and create a new public transport hub and flexible Parliament precinct. The existing space has hundreds of support columns that form the structural support for the public courtyard above. We plan to use these columns as a structured grid that will house transportable and flexible modules that can be moved and arranged to service different spacial requirements that Parliament may require in the future.

This is the diagram shows the existing function of the Parliament House and the proposed public transport location.

The aerial view of car park

This is the existing underground car park floor plan that shows there is a huge space with over 2000 car park with hundreds of support columns structure.

This is the future precinct floor plan. We design to reduce the car park, and locate them around the underground area. On the other hand, in the middle, there is a big space as the public transport area. The yellow area is the proposed car park location. The red blocks are the flexible modules that can be the public transport system, such as the bus stop or light rail station.