Bruce Stadium

I find it comical that the ACT has Bruce Stadim as that is a VERY AUSTRALIAN name.

Bruce Stadium – look in to this. http://www.canberrastadium.com.au/about/history.php

Australian Resilence

Bushfire in 2003 came extremely close to the centre of Canberra and Parliament House.

Australian National Anthem Highlights – floods and rains etc indicating that our identity as a nation is one of resilience – Australian Resilience. The capital needs to reflect this.

Another idea is that Canberra may be an underwater city with rising sea levels and climate chanege as shown below:

Water Water!

Lake – Australians flock to water – socialize at beaches, river, fake beach in Brisbane.

Man made lake in Canberra - put there for a reason.

Take parliament agency to the water?

Time to activate the lake in Canberra. How?

Open House

The outcome of todays tutorial was disscussion on how to make Parliament a more Open House.

A Federation Square Set up for EVERYONE to gather and watch political decisions.

Same infrastructure around the nation can be implemented.A Survivor show idea to open up parliament to EVERYONE, the same format as Big Brother and other reality tv shows can be used.

Parliament – the peoples building eg bastile day in france

Griffin Legacy

The Griffin Legacy is the bases of current canberra and plans to continue the plan are still in place to make canberra a vibrant people place. But i Question if the Griffen legacy is not yet fullfilling Australia as a capital should we not abandon the plan and try a new approach100 years later? IS australia being controlled too much by the plan?

The plan makes people respond to the city but i ask should the city not respond to the peoples movements.

BUT i do not suggest we remove the current plan but work on it as our nations foundations and historical significance. Australia is such a young nation with little history. DO NOT THROW AWAY our history.

Canberra as the Capital?

Relevance of Sydney to parliament and capital identiy

– Eg Sydney Harbour bridge – the coat hanger.

We fly politicians back and forth from Syd to Canberra – the prime minister has a home in Sydney.

International visitors travel Sydney then to Caneberra.

Has Canberra become redundant? Land Fill in?

Distributed wk 2

During class today we had to explore ways inwhich DISTRIBUTION would be relevant to Canberra, Capital, Australia, and Parliament. An idea of putting parliament central to the whole of australia in a space ship was explored. As well as placing cranes all around australia to distribute the aspects of parliament.

Virtual wk 2

- website acting as a capital

- no actual built space - architect role becomes questionable in this situation.

-Plug in as Robin Williams does in the movie Final Cut, where we can re see things people have lived.