Project Statement

Week 6 Presentation

Committee Diagrams

First Concept of Umbrella Over Parliament House

Plan for Assignment One

Assessment Criteria

• Vision for Australian Capital
• 1. Capital Strategy (25%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
     • 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.
     Outcome: one A2 (landscape) panel prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
  2. Capital Infrastructure and Presence (25%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
     • 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.
     Outcome: one A2 (landscape) panel prepared by team and Blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
• Architectural Investigation
• 1. Architectural Types & Purposes (20%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
     • Based on your investigation of Australian Capital Vision, you came up with an innovative suggestion to (partially) replace current Australian Parliament.
     • Excellent investigation and speculation are made to propose a range of services that your architectural entity is to provide.
     • 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.
     Outcome: one A3 (portrait) panel prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
  2. Architectural Presence & Identity (20%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
     • You conducted a unique and creative investigation into how your architectural entitiy can be identified and perceived as the capital of Australia by residents and visitors.
     • You summarised your investigation well and communicated all necessary Information clearly and creatively with images and diagrams in your panel.
     • Your blog communicates your idea development well.
     Outcome: one A3 (portrait) panel prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
  3. Written Project Statement (10%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
     • The statement was creative and imaginative.
     • The statement was well written.
     • Ideas leading to the statement was documented well in your blog.
     
     Outcome: one A4 (portrait) sheet with up to 400 words text prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual thoughts.

Week 2 A1

• Investigation of flexible as a strategy.
• Identify problems and issue associated with the way Canberra works as a capital city for Australia.
• Identify how a flexible strategy could lead to a solution for this problem.
• Use images and diagrams to illustrate this point.

Week 3 A1

• Identify how a flexible solution can take advantage of the existing or new physical infrastructure in and around parliament house.

Week 4 A3

• Based on these two previous weeks, propose how to either partially or fully replace an existing part of parliament.
• Identify how existing or new infrastructure services could help achieve this.

Week 5 A3

• Show how the strategy is identified by people as being representative of Australia’s modern cultural consciousness.

Statement 

• A creative and imaginative 400 word statement explaining how you reached your design brief and the thoughts and processes behind it.

Senate Structure

Parliament - What do they do for you?

What Parliament can do for you

• the activities and procedures of the House;
• the passage of legislation through both Houses;
• lodging petitions;
• the Chamber Galleries and making a booking to observe Question Time;
• parliamentary committees and their inquiries;
• participation in a parliamentary committee inquiry including advice on making a submission to an inquiry;
• where parliamentary committee public hearings are being held;
• access to documents, including committee reports, tabled in the Parliament;
• community outreach initiatives such as seminars, displays and exhibitions;
• parliamentary education activities including school visits;
• contacting your local Member;
• inter-parliamentary visits and conferences;
• gaining access, including for the purposes of filming and photography, to the Parliament building and parliamentary precincts and the Chamber galleries; and
• the guidelines for demonstrations in the parliamentary precincts.