[1] Historic Maps of Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canberrahouse/sets/72157605402510546//

W2 Reflection

The past couple of weeks has not really produced anything that can be quantified or which will contribute to the final presentation boards other than progress work and proof of idea development. However some very important ideas have been generated and crucial issues addressed which will have a strong bearing on the development of each of our individual architectural entities.

Parliament

Exemplars

The following is a list of possible exemplary architects which produce architecture exhibiting forms of flexible, mobile, distribution and virtual components.

The list will be added to with discoveries of other exemplars and precedents.

Tom Kundig
Kevin Low
Cedric Price
Peter Cook
Richard Rogers
Gramazio and Kohler
Shiro Studio
Sensable City Lab
REX
Robert Kronenburg

flexible, mobile, distributed, virtual

These are the themes comprising the DAB810 Architectural design project in generating an architecture or system of architecture responding to parliament or Canberra. The level of specificity, detail, complexity, realism, innovation and scale of the design are all unknown at this stage similar to the conceptual design brief for such an architecture. This is the first stage, generating a vision or strategy through identifying key issues within Canberra and Parliament: this can then form the basis for an architectural response. I anticipate there is going to be high levels of brainstorming/investigation/research/precedent analysis throughout this process of brief construction due to the obscurity and broad nature of this design problem.