New Law Courts
Paris, France
2006
program: International design competition for the new Law Courts of Paris, in the Tolbiac – Halle Freyssinet area, Paris
area: 100 000 m2
client: Ministère de la Justice
project: Alfonso Femia * with Metrogramma
structural engineering: AI Studio, AI Engineering
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
Paris, France
2006
program: International design competition for the new Law Courts of Paris, in the Tolbiac – Halle Freyssinet area, Paris
area: 100 000 m2
client: Ministère de la Justice
project: Alfonso Femia * with Metrogramma
structural engineering: AI Studio, AI Engineering
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
“Constructing a suspended building in which the monolithic external introversion leads to an “Escher-style” layout of geometrically variable spaces in which justice is represented as a machine.” AF
The project works around a metaphysical rethinking of the layout of the existing building and develops a Gothic-style underground landscape of security functions, evoking the purpose (alas) which the building must serve.
This also means constructing a suspended building in which the monolithic external introversion leads to an “Escher-style” layout of geometrically variable spaces in which justice is represented as a machine.
This also means constructing a suspended building in which the monolithic external introversion leads to an “Escher-style” layout of geometrically variable spaces in which justice is represented as a machine.