英国议会大厦具有各种不同的功能,诸如:图书馆、观众厅、美术馆及这些机构驻印度的办公总部等。各层次空间呈现着的功能迥异的建筑空间,令人回想起过去几个世纪以来印度和英国之间风云变幻的历程。从主入口处沿着建筑宅轴线可以径直列达楼后花园。 建筑主轴线上的三个节点暗示着三条宗宙的轴线,每条轴线令人联想到存在于印度次大陸上的一个重要神话系统。最终端的一条轴线代表着印度教,螺旋线形状象征着神秘的宇宙能源中心;位于主要中庭的节点则反映了另一个神话系统经典主题:传统伊斯兰的天堂花园,轴线的第三个节点注释了理性年代:镶嵌在大理石和花岗石墙中的十六世纪的欧洲航海罗盘,象征了现代 The British Parliament has a variety of functions, such as libraries, auditoriums, art galleries, and the offices of these institutions in India. The architectural spaces with different functions at all levels of space are reminiscent of the ever-changing course between India and Britain in the past few centuries. From the main entrance, you can walk straight up to the back garden of the building along the axis of the building. The three nodes on the main shaft of the building imply the axis of three patrimonial lines, each axis reminiscent of an important mythological system existing on the Indian subcontinent. The axis at the very end represents Hinduism, the spiral shape symbolizes the mysterious cosmic energy center, and the node at the main atrium reflects another classic theme of the mythological system: the traditional Islamic paradise garden with the third node of the axis annotating the rationality. Age: A sixteenth-century European sea compass set in marble and granite walls symbolizes modern