New Arezzo Law Court, Tuscany, Italy
2001-07
Studio Nicoletti Associati
IAA International Award
With: F. Pagliano Tajani
Structures: M. Mele
Layout: M. Valentini
Services: E.N.E.T.E.C.
Fire protection: A. e A. Sorrento
Q.S.: R. Postorino
Work supervision: A. Sorrento
Near the Medici's Fortress, inside an historical park, the new building
houses the main courtrooms and the Hall of Justice President headquarter
and is linked to a neoclassical building, once a large hospital, to be
restored and used for offices and archives. The design of the New Wing,
symbolises its environment: the rich vegetation of the park and the city's
medieval structure, which was protected by a belt of conch walls on one
side and, on the other, open to the squares, gardens and the territory.
Also the New Wing is enclosed on the North side by a coved wall of flamed
black granite slabs dark-grey tone. To the South, an undulating transparent
sunscreen façade of stainless steel is shaped according to a geometrically
warped geometry which is characteristics of the skin of many living creatures,
including leaves. Those complex curvilinear forms can be built using only
rectilinear elements.
Thus, a silver bioclimatic foliage protects the interior spaces by a luminous
shadow and blends with the park without clashing with the neoclassical
nearby architectural elements. In the interior spaces, the astonishing
reflection of the mirror-like polished black granite floor is contrasting
with the greenish glazed envelop and the horizontal acoustic grey panel
separated by narrow maple fascias.
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