Notes for Week 1

CAPIThetical: hypothetical Australian city.

The capital of a country should be the place that draws people to it - the place where everybody wants to be (not just citizens/residents, but visitors to the country).

Parliament and/or its Agents (interpret what this means) for the 21st century:
   > not just one building, but any combination of buildings
   > doesn't necessarily have to be a building, can include other spaces/places

Do not recreate another Parliament House, be imaginative about what services we need, what technologies we have at our disposal that we didn't have 100 years ago.

What does the current Parliament House offer?

Develop a strategy for dealing with the situation:
 > Flexible (multipurpose? changing for different applications?)
 > Mobile (physically mobile, philosophically mobile, moveable architecture)
 > Distributed (what new  things can this provide?)
 > Virtual (what does this mean: accessible/inaccessible, tangible/intangible)

Flexible: Who can build it? eg. Street Museum built by children
Doesn't necessarily need new buildings, just need the buildings to be activated eg Archigram Instant City
Cedric Price Thinkbelt - classes for university distributed over city
Superstudio Continuous movement - architecture does not exist in a tangible manner, but all technology is available

Tangible layer should work well with virtual layer.

Infrastructure: do not isolate own building from everything else,  integrate with existing infrastructure or create a new one that integrates with existing city.
 > Support Infrastructure
 > Transportation Infrastructure
 > Communication Infrastructure
 be up-to-date with what's possible
infrastructure might be enought to create architecture, but whether or not it will be comfortable or create delight is the question

Presence and Identity - must retain existing presence/identity, but also create and expand on it
Architectural Type and Purposes - what does it provide (function, services)