National Assembly for Wales
A little bell shape going out from an impressive roof, comes cascading into a dramatic form, looking like the trunk of a tree which supports the roof and guides the eye to the lower levels. Here you can find a public space that lets everyone have a glance on what’s going on in The Debating Chamber underneath. The funnel shape actually both ventilates and helps to daylight the chamber. A lot of the building is actually opened to the public, the street level, elevated from the ground by a series of platform and stairs, is indented to guest exhibition spaces and even a café. The idea of openness is suggested, from the outside, both by the glazed enclosing and by the western red cedar roof expanding out of the building itself. With
its series of shallow domes, coming from inside looking like waves going back to the sea, it generates an organic architecture that units the exterior and the interior.
Richard Rogers managed to create a building whose democratic function is clearly expressed under one dramatic roof.
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