Notes for Week 2

FLEXIBLE:
Think about how it is going to be demolished: design for disassembly - how easy will it be to take apart (LIFE-CYCLE) eg. Fun Palace (Cedric Price); Centre Pompidou (Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers) with moveable floors.
Vernacular - adapted slowly (manually) according to needs
- what if architecture is altered by machines? Robots building, changing - rapid prototyping (and able to be disassembled)
disaster aids

Not relying heavily on tangible materials (to construct architectural entity) - placing layers on top of tangible layers.
REX: AT&T Performing Arts Centre

What can occupants do with a space?
What can a space do for its occupants?

MOBILE (+ DISTRIBUTED):
What is mobile?
Cars, buses, trains, space ships, planes, helicopters, cranes (crane arms), boats, submarines, subway (underground transport - mine carts etc) 
SATELLITES

Transport, infrastructure (allows mobility), assembly + disassembly
Technology - internet [all different places at once], mobile phones, virtual conferencing [holograms, feeling like you're actually there]
Construction materials - shipping containers
Increasing mobility by activating existing infrastructure
Using Canberra as embryo
Will parliament exist? Is the Government's role still necessary?
One big parliament house - physically or digitally dispersed, rather than having parliament houses in each city
Our cities are coastal: cargo ships?

VIRTUAL:
What is virtual?

The human mind, imagination, relationships, the internet (digital), physical effort
NOT ABLE TO BE TOUCHED OR GRASPED... BUT EXPERIENCED.
"that which is not real, but displaying saliant qualities of the real", colloquial "almost"
"Having essence or effect but not appearance or form."
Virtual reality - mind, computer simulated. Creating alter egos (WOW, Sims, avatars) - people still interacting,  earning money.
eg. a painting is virtual - evokes memories, experiences, feelings, emotions
music, stories EFFECTIVE


Politician's personality affects decisions - WHAT IF the personal element could be removed?
Virtual not just computer generated (digital) - anything intangible.
Define what it is to be Australian - contemporary
What is Australian society? define this in the brief


Printer = virtual to reality
Scanner = reality to virtual

Kiosks to plug into rather than travelling to parliament (shouldn't have to travel so far to visit a government body). Local councils already provide us with a means (location) to distribute virtual kiosks for public use.
Creating a personalised experience for users - will this lead to isolation? (if all users are experiencing it differently).

FLEXIBLE:
What is flexible?
ADAPTABLE - susceptible of modification or adaptation. Pliable.
Multiple functions - designate more than one group of people to use it

Changing ambience or mood of space
Changing volume - inflated/deflated
Skins - transparent, opaque
Modular - change spatial arrangements
Organic - grow buildings from materials (recycled?)
DYNAMIC vs. STATIC

Separate building into two parts: Rigid vs. Flexible
> Rigid: the part of the project which is known,  unlikely to be altered
> Flexible: the places not really sure what to do or how to do it, or what the requirements may be
What is rigid? What is flexible?


What separates adaptable, universal, moveable, transformable, responsive?


Light, sound, smell, scale (boundaries may diminish/disappear)
Changing experience, atmosphere, mood, ambience, colour, music/sounds, light/dark/shadow.
Concepts - flexible virtuality
Think about other parliaments/government systems


We follow the general rules of society and don't challenge the space we have been given.
Even if we give people the ability to adapt a space, they can't imagine it to be different from what it is, therefore it remains unchanged.


Changing scale (virtual - changing scale within the mindset of users/architects)
Protect but be open (openness, transparency)
What is a boundary? physical, emotional, mental, moral
What can new materials do? (nanotechnology)