P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S ~ Brief Development

BRIEF

~ Transport System (bus station/ light rail station) – travel around the three main places in Canberra which are the airport, city and the parliament, other lines go around the surrounding suburbs.

~ Nerve Centre - it is to analysis all the data (problem/issue) from the public (online forum /physical submit), and determine what issues is/are the most relevant, then automatically allocate room and facilities for the committee meeting in the near future.

"High demand issue = More people = Larger room + more facilities"

"Low demand issue = Less people = Smaller room + less facilities"

~ Committee Rooms – there will be four committee rooms provided in the entity, two for the Sanate and two for the House of the representative. These committee rooms are very flexible so there size can be varies. They can be expanded when there are more people or extracted when there are less people. The two committee rooms can also join together to form a large room if it’s needed.

~ Meeting – The never centre have a system that stores a list of histories on who have asked questions or commented on certain issues. When there is a meeting coming, the system will send request to these people to participate on the day of the meeting. Then the system will send another email to those who have responded that whether they are successfully chosen to present in the meeting or not. For those who are successfully chosen, further information about time, location and topic will be notified.  

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Space included in the entity:

Public	Private
Foyer ~ 50m2	Security ~ 16m2
Reception ( combine with foyer)	Staff offices ~ 25m2
Café / restaurant ~ 150m2	Staff break room ~ 16m2
Gallery / Display area ~ 100m2	Technical rooms
Gift shop ( combine with gallery)	Storage
Small theatre (combine with Entertaining space)	Waiting area
Entertaining space ~ 60m2	Committee rooms (Sanate)
Bathroom ~ 80m2	Committee rooms (HOR)

Location: The green open space in front of the New Parliament house at the Capital hill

Design: It is designed to be an underground to ensure that it is not to compete with the existing buildings and also not to unimpede the view in between the old parliament house and the new parliament house.   

Purpose: This architectural entity is to provide public interaction with the parliamentary which the current parliamentary system is lack of. This entity offers spaces and opportunities for the public to interact with the existing committee rooms and members such as interacting with the parliamentary members while they are in the meetings (ask question via video call / face to face debating). It is proposed to provide more public spaces for the visitors and members to relax besides just about working in the parliament.