International Architecture Competition (2 degrees) for the new Courthouse in Catania - Italy

6th PLACE

The project has the ambitious goal of giving back to the city a new urban centrality, livable all day long, to trigger new urban and social dynamics.

To achieve this goal, the building of the new Courthouse has been placed in the center of the plot, creating an urban park all around it.

All the offices and functions of the new Courthouse are grouped in a single building, articulated volumetrically and functionally in three elements: the basement, the elevated terraces and the suspended volume.

The façade system, with brise-soleil to filter the light and create the right thermal and environmental comfort and the right lighting of the offices, generates a continuous rhythm of abstractions between full and empty spaces, while the light determines the transparency and an ever-changing appearance.

The whole realizes a project harmoniously embedded in the context, all-round livable, with multiple new points of view and connections that did not exist before.