Palace of Westminster
A legislative committee room interior precedent demonstrating the integration of modern communication technology within a historic timber-panelled assembly space.
- What we like about this project
- Modern flat-screen monitors embedded directly into the traditional timber horseshoe desk layout.
Materials
- wood
- wallpaper
- leather
- brass
- glass
Visual identifiers
- horseshoe-desk
- wood-panelling
- patterned-wallpaper
- large-portrait-painting
Style tags
- traditional
- institutional
- historicist
Visual tags
- historic
- assembly
- interior
- institutional
- formal
- Geometry
- Symmetrical grand interior featuring a central horseshoe conference desk facing a focal wall dominated by wood panelling and a large framed portrait.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing historic masonry walls with timber floor and ceiling structures.
- Spatial scale
- High-volume historic chamber with a human-scaled meeting furniture arrangement.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight entering from tall side windows balanced with artificial pendant chandeliers and integrated screen illumination.
- Atmosphere
- Solemn, formal, and richly textured with historic ornament.
- Environmental context
- Historic interior within a legislative palace setting.
- Spatial experience
- Formal and hierarchical; the horseshoe seating creates an inward-focused deliberative space under a lofty ceiling.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber panels and matching green-upholstered chairs line the horseshoe perimeter.
- Style reading
- Traditional institutional interior with contemporary integration
- Program
- Legislative committee meeting room
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood, wallpaper, leather, brass, glass
- Visual identifiers
- horseshoe-desk, wood-panelling, patterned-wallpaper, large-portrait-painting
- Style tags
- traditional, institutional, historicist
- Visual tags
- historic, assembly, interior, institutional, formal
- Geometry
- Symmetrical grand interior featuring a central horseshoe conference desk facing a focal wall dominated by wood panelling and a large framed portrait.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing historic masonry walls with timber floor and ceiling structures.
- Spatial scale
- High-volume historic chamber with a human-scaled meeting furniture arrangement.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight entering from tall side windows balanced with artificial pendant chandeliers and integrated screen illumination.
- Atmosphere
- Solemn, formal, and richly textured with historic ornament.
- Environmental context
- Historic interior within a legislative palace setting.
- Spatial experience
- Formal and hierarchical; the horseshoe seating creates an inward-focused deliberative space under a lofty ceiling.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber panels and matching green-upholstered chairs line the horseshoe perimeter.
- Style reading
- Traditional institutional interior with contemporary integration
- Program
- Legislative committee meeting room
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior