Brief - More Thoughts

An untitled reading on Norman Foster's British Museum Great Court gave me a couple more ideas on the development of the brief.

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British Museum Great Court - Norman Foster

Covering the Great Court creates a microclimate which allows people to use the spaces in ways they would not be able to outside. It also gives a different experience of the space to what was originally intended in the Great Court.

Covering parliament house could also create a new microclimate and give the space a new feeling.

What kind of feeling should it have?

What does it feel like now?

Should it change?

Changes that a skin or roof could make to parliament house:

shade - it shouldn't become so shaded that the grass dies, there are also skylights on top of the hill.

openness - people walking above parliament house on the hill are in the open, exposed to the weather, a roof or skin could retain this but it could also allow for all weather access, or it could do both using different layers

weather - a skin or roof could create a microclimate,

wind - if wind cant pass through the flag will no longer fly

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