Kaluzinski Thibaut - Architecture & Experience

Thibaut Kaluzinski : Law Courthouse

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Satellite View

Ground Plan

Negative Plan - Actual

Negative Plan - Project

Ground Plan

Axonometric View - South-East

Axonometric View - North-East

Axonometric View - North-West

Axonometric View - South-West

Axonometric View - South-East

Superior Ground Floor - Public Reception & Services

Basement - Cells and Sealed

Inferior Ground Floor - Administrative judicial police

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First Floor - Assize Courts

Second Floor - Correctional Courts

Third & Fourth Floor - Police Courts

Fifth Floor - Jurists & Specilized Offices

Sixth Floor - Jurists & Specilized Offices

Seventh Floor - Jurists & Specilized Offices

Eighth Floor - Jurists Offices

Axonometry

Axonometric Section

Longitudinal Section

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Transversal Section

Perspective Section

South Elevation

North Elevation

Elevation & Section Details

Perspective - Upper Street

Perspective - Public Entrance

Perspective - Warned & Judicial Police Entrance

Perspective - Hall of the Lost Steps

Perspective - Winter Gardens

Perspective - Assize Court

Perspective - Police Court

Perspective - Room for "Giustizia della pace"

In institutional architecture, power is embodied. A courthouse is a representation of it. In terms of symbols and character, the image of public institutions has an heritage of signs that cannot be shaken up without risk. The architecture proposed here is a reinterpretation of this heritage. From the most distant vision of the city, the bay, the square, to the details of the interior spaces and although the facade, the project creates a dialogue between justice and the city. This essay on architectural composition, as a transition from the meaning of words to signs built around the notions of correctness, equity, balance, dignity, brings together a contemporary vision of the institution. A rigorous structure with a formal vocabulary of permanence, transparency and reflection appear to be the components of the necessary openness and impartiality of justice.

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