Circulation

Circulation for the public entrance segments in the first internal courtyard. Visitors head right to the teaching space, left to the eating/restaurant space, or straight ahead into the central courtyard, where they can then enter the exhibition space.

For the central exhibition space, visitors typically enter through the east and west foyers. They are then given the freedom to explore numerous routes  throughout the gallery space.

Circulation for the office block segments in the foyer. Staff head right or left depending on the location of their workspace, or straight ahead to the courtyard or restaurant.

Infrastructure

Strategy:
The infrastructure of the archives network (that is, the world wide web database) will be expanded and broadened by the new archives. Specifically this refers to the online virtual reading room VROOM (http://vrroom.naa.gov.au/), while generally it is the expansion of the proposed tablet computer network where visitors can view and research, collect and explore, input and record - from anywhere and everywhere.

The existing infrastructure of history and memory of the previous archives has been built upon by the new buildings' encompassing and embracing of the lost structure. Its allusion to the past has been dealt with by its delicate addressing of the negative space - embodying the disembodied.

Logistics:
The design of the new National Archives is created to be dynamic - The overall multifunctional nature of the entities within the new National Archives respond to changing requirements of users as well as the country as a whole - the ability to adapt the spaces to suit ones own user experience.

The infinite virtual space of the archives gallery provides the basis for an ever-increasing and ever-expanding collection of memories, perspectives, history, art, stories and artifacts.

The development of new technologies can be adapted into the running of the archives. Such technologies might even have been developed by the archives themselves in their inclusive Innovations Department.

Departments in the National Archives

It became necessary when designing the office component of the building, to make note of all of the potential departments that would need to be included. These include existing departments, as well as new ones that have been added to enhance the archives' abilities.
1. Commonwealth Records Management and Storage
2. Research and Analysis
3. Data Collection and Analysis
4. Archives Administration
5. Exhibit Management
6. Media Centre
7. Learning and Teaching Programs
8. Archives Technology Upkeep, Maintenance, Development
9. Publications Distribution
10. Agency Customer Service Centre
11. GAIN (Government Agencies Information Network)
12. External Archives Network Management - Internet and Intranet
13. Innovations

Plus Reception, Back Dock area, and Chief Executive Offices

estimate 300 people

Australian Culture and Identity

In order to create a building that carries an Australian presence (culture and values), it is necessary for it to be developed in response to climate, history, place, and identity.
It should use Australian materials (including corrugated iron).
It should emphasise space and light, and a connection to the landscape.

eg. latticework verandas and slats - prevent sun heating buildings and promote air flow
energy efficient, passive solar
materials with low embodied energy
rainwater harvesting
skylights

Buildings that float above the land, touch the earth lightly.


Multifunctional entity - responds to changing requirements of proprietors and users.

Culture:
social cohesion and unity
democratic
appreciate and conserve environment
diverse, tolerant, egalitarian
dynamic, committed to freedom

multicultural - many stories tangled together.

Storytelling

The Aesthetic of Parliament

In order to make the building integrate within the parliamentary triangle it is necessary for it to follow similar aesthetic principles of its surrounding buildings.

SYMMETRY - BRUTALIST - ORGANIC
vertical fin detailing
northern floor to ceiling expanses of glass
curved roofs and ceilings
colours echo natural environment
thermal mass, insulation
insulated concrete slab
timber frame work

How Project 1 influences Project 2

I went back through the Project 1 panels, statement, and blog notes, in order to determine key aspects that influence the design of Project 2:

Speculate an alternative version of the present.
Due to information loss - digital collection at archives destroyed, physical data and building.
=> Creating the archives from scratch
=> Creating history
=> Creating a new system
- new law
- new Government

How is Parliament re-imaged?
 - once static system reevaluated to rebuild the image in light of INFORMATION and INNOVATION
 - capital identity forged from memories, perceptions, histories, people, place, ideologies and events (past and present)

EXPERIENCE
acknowledge the past of architectural memory
the virtual strategy attempts to embody the disembodied through occupying negative space

Past (reinvented)
Present (imagined)
Future (speculated)

Outcomes -
innovation, new information systems, recollection of knowledge, new + improved networks, new laws + reassessment of justice

CAPITAL IDENTITY - INCIDENT - MEMORY OF ESSENCE - RE-IMAGING - RE-PLACEMENT