Ciudad de la Justicia

Details_

• CLIENT: Ministry of Justice
• PROJECT: Riccardo Crespi Architetto (AdHocMsl)
• AREA: 31.600mq
• BUDGET: 22.800.000€
• PHASES: Competition

Project description_

To meet the new requirements, the competition program for the expansion of the Ciudad de la Justicia de Murcia included the doubling of existing building area, built in 2000, with the construction of a new wing in the free areas of the lot-mail south and east.

Despite  the previously feasibility study that suggested to build the extension of the existing building  within a “L” shaped volume, we decided to do not to comply with this requirement, and we designed a building located and rotated in the plot area in order to ensure better orientation.We arranged all the functions in one unique building located perpendicularly to the existing one and to this connected by pedestrian paths at different levels.

One of the project’s goal was also to design a building that would combine the rigid features of a court, and its strictly separated paths related to the many different functions and functionary , with the proper seriousness that characterizes the administration department.

It is thus proved that we have defined a type of “slippage” and “sponge”. At a plan level we defined main functional areas as rooms for hearings, general offices, open spaces offices, the judges’ offices with their assistants. These areas are conceived as a separated volumes , we have slipped in order to create empty spaces between them. Aforementioned empty areas were designed to be Gardens, terraces, green volumes which not only provide a sense of “home” to the but that, taking advantage of the chimney-effect, allow the generation of air currents that naturally cools the interior spaces and cooperating in the functional flexibility of the building, taking shape as possible space useful in the future if the needs of the Ciudad de la Justicia would increase.