BRIEF//

My brief is as follows:

- To provide a building to politically represent issues within the Australian Government

- To have a flexible nature in some sense - Use of hydraulic plates below ground level to move 'pods' on either side of the buildings core

- 20 offices are needed

- 3 head offices for seniors

- Front reception desk

- Connection to green spaces on either side of the building

- Lecture theatre to cater for 250 people

- Staff kitchen to all levels

- Male and female bathrooms to all levels (staff and public)

- Rooftop garden social space

- Exterior area to have assembly area for announcements

- To provide a light rail system along King Avenue and turn onto King Edward Terrace and then back onto Commonwealth Avenue back to Capital Hill

- Plant room

- Security room

- Meeting rooms x 3

POD brief//

- There are 2 kinds of pods. One side will be liberal, the other labor. Issues not in these categories can vary throughout either side

- One side will contain different materials to other to allow for representation of different sides.

- Roughly 8 x 10m

- To contain built in joinery for desks and information booths

SITE//

The site I have chosen in Canberra between Kings Avenue and Dorothy Tangney Place.
The site is currently a carpark roughly 80 x 230m.

The reason I chose this site is that it can coincide with the light rail system that was proposed in assignment 1 (see image attached)

Bordering the site is a busy main vehicular road (Kings Avenue) and the John Gorton Finance Building with adjacent carpark. There is currently landscaping and tree's surrounding the site in which I intent to maintain.

As the site is so big, I will maintain 1/3 - 1/2 of the site to remain as carparking as it is current that the carpark is always full and the area is in need of the carparking facilities. To keep the current number and increase to allow for more carparking for visitors for my project, I will extended the carpark down into the ground to create an underground carpark.

The remainder of the site will consist of my building with surrounding connections to landscape