Proposed Canberra Parliament House re-design statement

Proposed New Design

Project Statement:

We believe political power holding by politicians in many terms is not used wisely and efficiently. Therefore the Australian Constitution should be restructured to distribute more power back to people who makes a living of the country. Moreover, rather than politicians, real national issues should be dealt by real wise people with specified professions who seriously contribute toward the nation.

We believe Canberra should have its unique identity. Parliament House as core reason why Canberra had been chosen and developed to be capital city it should be also more attractive and iconic. If consider Sydney’s character as a wealthy merchant, Melbourne as a creative artist, Brisbane as a sunny teenager and Perth as a conscientious engineer, what role should we identify Canberra? We allocate it to be a wise conductor and Parliament House is like his brain and hands, distributing wise strategies and correct tempos to all over the country very much like orchestrating a beautiful rhythm.

We believe Canberra as capital city should play as role model that educates people in both micro and macro ways. Environmental strategies are allocated to the Parliament House with willingness to keep and enhance Canberra’s garden city concept designed by Griffin. In various ways, stuffs and visitors would interact with Parliament House in sustainable ways, and hence these interactions will be distributed to all over the country through media or experience telling through visitors.

We believe parliamentary services can be gathered, modified, and then distributed according to the new Australian Constitution structure. The core of this distributed system is House of Strategy, where strategists from specific department announce and debate solutions of national issues. Outcome solution will go to House of validation, which replaced House of Representatives. Once a solution is validated by combinations of field professions, politicians and representatives of communities it will go to House of Senate for executive permissions. The solution will be send back to department for planning and scheduling. And at last stage, orders will be sending to local governments for execution.

Most existing infrastructures will be kept to serve their adjusted functions. Due to the expansion of parliament house, the shifting function of larger and smaller circle routes for better control towards the flow of traffic to and from parliament house. Limiting unsustainable transportation access and promoting a greener network of infrastructure within and around the parliament house. To maximise the efficiency of traffic flow, existing empty pass way around parliament were utilized to connect into the internal facilities.  

To highlight the most significant infrastructure of our design, the sky bridge that serves as a medium that links House of Strategies and departments through a distributed form. The sky bridge stimulates a flexible social network between people from different fields, who pays great contribution towards the country’s new political system. Moreover, it is an essential infrastructure that boosts working and communication efficiency within the Parliament House.

We injected power and grandness to the new Parliament House through architectural strategy ‘scale’.

We provided the design with character and functionality through using ‘form’.

We have also used ‘harmony’ elements to emerge new design with existing buildings.

In summary, the new Parliament House is a symbolic architecture that represents the country and its new constitutional system, which serves the nation and its people with sincerity. It grants Canberra with wise and leading identity that would let citizens to feel proud of. Moreover, it is also playing a model role which educates people with positive living attitudes through sustainable and green design elements.