BRIEF_with feedback and a schematic plan

I propose to implement a Public Committee Interaction Hub, based on improving public interaction and involvement with the existing Parliamentary Committee Room and members.  The existing Australian Parliament House Committee Rooms on Level 1 and 2 are currently off limits to the public visitation and interaction, so I intend on designing a hub for the Public to interact! 

The Public Committee Interaction Hub will involve:

• One Committee Conference Room for House of Representatives Committee – sizes varies from 30 m² to 300m²
• One committee Conference Room for the Senate Chamber Committee – sizes varies from 30 m² to 300m²Café/ eatery – 150m² (Above ground)
• Toilet facilities – 40m²
• Staff office/s – 20m²
• Storage – 100m²
• Technician rooms – 14m² 
• Parliamentary display rooms and galleries; reception and the Main Foyer – 50m² 
• Access to the Underground – Lifts and Stairs from the Café space/ foyer

The public would voice their campaigns and problems on the online Parliament House Committee forums and facebook pages (Which are controlled by the staff members), and then will further request to be present on the day of the Committee Meeting.  The public committee interaction hub staff will then review all these requests and will next email each Public member whether they are successful and also with information regarding the meeting place and time etc.  These hub staff members will work out of their group collaborative staff offices.

JOURNEY: The Public would then arrive and Parliament House enter through the café foyer area through the lifts/ stairs and walk through a main foyer space, which also doubles up as a gallery/ display area, they then distribute to their respective Conference Committee Rooms that they are required to attend, either left or right.  The toilets will be at both Conference Committee Rooms, as well as technician rooms for each room, and the staff offices spread out with the storage spaces.

The main foyer area will have a reception check in and security point before entering the main underground rooms, but the main foyer room will also double up as a flexible space by also acting as a gallery and display space.  Pieces of history and current information will be displayed around this area to act as an introduction to the HUB area. 

The live Committee Meeting from within the Parliament House will be streamed to each of conference committee rooms and will allow for public interaction, by being able to ask questions to the Committee Members during the session question times.  Each of the Conference Committee Room – House of Representatives and the Senate Chamber will expand and contract to the amount of public visiting and exhibiting these rooms (demand required from the Public).  The rooms will cater for all sizes of people from 10 people (30m²) to 100 people (300m²) and these number will as already mentioned, be determined by the amount of public demand, as recorded by the staff of the Hub.  These staff members will set up each room for the sizes required, by sliding the doors in piece for the correct amount of room.  The main wall will be installed on adaptable wheels and will slide against the two adjacent walls to be put in place, and then the necessary amount of furniture and equipment will be installed (all stored in the Storage spaces at each end of the hub, for each of the respective Conference committee rooms). 

The control room will control the amount of people that will be visiting and will inform the staff of the room size required.  The technician rooms will control the live streams, interaction between the public and the Committee Members.  These rooms will have large TV screens for the live streams and each public member will have their own desk, response pad and a microphone to interact. 

I propose to do this at the LOCATION, however the foyer and gallery spaces, main conference committee rooms, toilets, staff offices and technician rooms will be developed underground, so that the hub wont be imposing to the existing buildings and allowing for the continuation of flexible spaces on the ground floor.  The majority of the underground spaces will be mechanically ventilated using the existing Air-conditioning services from Parliament House, as well as using artificial lighting for these spaces.  However also all of the spaces will have some natural lighting from the café space about with sky lights.  All the electrical services, telecommunication and sewerage services will be also used directly from Parliament Houses Services.