Nichtoffener Wettbewerb | 12/2015
Re-designing the New Headquarters of the Supreme Court and the School of Magistrates
Finalist
Architektur
Architektur
Architektur
Erläuterungstext
THE SUPREME COURT AS AN URBAN PLACE FOR THE CITY
The goals of the Competition for the Supreme Court of Tirana necessarily lead to address a variety of issues simultaneously posed by the relationship between the symbolic and ethical aspects of the high judicial office and its possible architectural configuration.
The conception of a new complex dedicated to the highest form of judicial activity for Albania, together with the important education and training activities, leads to reflect on the relationship between architectural space and its symbolic fallout in the urban community. The new judicial complex becomes the place where Justice becomes Training of the ethical collective and individual conscience and leads citizens to have a whole vision of different fields of knowledge in a new approach, as presented by the programmatic document on the basis of the consultation.
The Supreme Court is, therefore, seen as a place of ‘welcome’, open to the citizens, able to stimulate the knowledge and the sharing of a series of activities that are so important for the stability of the state. The choice is, therefore, to locate the most representative functions in the historic building, maintaining and enhancing the main entrance and the ambulatory of the porch.
The goals of the Competition for the Supreme Court of Tirana necessarily lead to address a variety of issues simultaneously posed by the relationship between the symbolic and ethical aspects of the high judicial office and its possible architectural configuration.
The conception of a new complex dedicated to the highest form of judicial activity for Albania, together with the important education and training activities, leads to reflect on the relationship between architectural space and its symbolic fallout in the urban community. The new judicial complex becomes the place where Justice becomes Training of the ethical collective and individual conscience and leads citizens to have a whole vision of different fields of knowledge in a new approach, as presented by the programmatic document on the basis of the consultation.
The Supreme Court is, therefore, seen as a place of ‘welcome’, open to the citizens, able to stimulate the knowledge and the sharing of a series of activities that are so important for the stability of the state. The choice is, therefore, to locate the most representative functions in the historic building, maintaining and enhancing the main entrance and the ambulatory of the porch.