Parliament Building

• The new parliament of Srilanka is located about ten miles east of

Colombo. it was built on a twelve-acre island reclaimed from a historic
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diyawanna oya, It was designed by the architects Mr. Geoffrey Bawa

and Begg and was constructed by a Japanese consortium of two
Mitsui companies
• An ancient waterway in Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte with the
construction of massive retaining wall 3600 feet long, 6 feet high, 6
feet board at the base and tapering to one and half feet all around
the island.
 • Satellite view • Ariel view of the Parliament Building
• The building is surrounded by 300-acre Lake and it covers an area of 48000 sq.
m. The lake gives a moat like protection and also it enhances the serenity of the
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location
• It was inaugurated on 29th April 1982
• The parliament of sri lank is a simple rectilinear structure bound on all sides by
water
• The ceremonial drive bifurcates into two approaches, one leading to the
entrance for the members of parliament on the east and the other to the entrance
for the staff on the west..
 • The centerpiece of the whole building, on which meticulous
care has been lavished is accommodated in the four storied
main building.
• It is rectangular in shape and occupies the height of two
floors.
• The chamber has sitting capacity of 232 members and it
can take in 16 more without any structural alteration.
CONFERENCE ROOM
• The parliament has a well-equipped library. It has about 30,000
volumes of library. It is exclusively used by the members of the
parliament.
• The library has books,, news papers and reference materials related
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to legal, political, economic, history and social sciences, collection

of parliamentary debates, legal enactments, acts & bills of Sri
Lanka,
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LIBRARY
• The parliament has 8 committee rooms in total. These rooms
are in fact used most of the times. The committee rooms are
very simple in layout
• . Each committee room has a minimum capacity of 100 seats,
telephone booth, interpretation room, recording room and
computer system
COMMITTEE ROOM
CONCEPT AND PLAN

CONCEPT PLAN OF THE BUILDING

• The design placed the main chamber in a • The main pavilion is symmetrical about an
central pavilion surrounded by a cluster of axis running north-south through the
five satellite pavilions. debating chamber, the Speaker’s chair and the
•  Each pavilion is defined by its own umbrella formal entrance portal.
roof of copper and seems to grow out of its •  But the power of this axis and the scale of the
own plinth, although the plinths are actually main roof are diffused by the asymmetric
connected to form a continuous ground and arrangement of the lesser pavilions around it.
first floor.
  OFFICES FOR GOVERNMENT  OTHER ANCILLARY SAPCES
OTHER SPACES

OFFICIALS
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•Banks, Post office
the president
• the prime minister •Dinning hall
• the speaker •Medical care center
• the ministers •Cafeteria
• the deputy speaker and the deputy •Canteen
• chairman of committees •Reservation office
• the attorney general
• the auditor general
• the legal draftsman