Studio Nicoletti
Arezzo Law Court
Arezzo, Italy
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
The Arezzo Law Court is located in a historical park in the Medici’s Fortress. The new building, housing the main courtrooms and the Hall of Justice President’s headquarters, is linked to a neoclassical building, once a large hospital, that will be restored and used for offices and archives.
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
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 open to the squares and gardens on the other.
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
On the north side the New Wing is enclosed by a curved wall of black granite slabs with a flamed surface, giving it a matted dark-grey tone.
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
The south facing facade is covered by a transparent, undulating stainless steel sunscreen.
The curvilinear form, with only rectilinear elements, is geometrically warped in shapes characteristic of nature and leaves.
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
This silver bio-climatic foliage, that protects the interior spaces by a luminous shadow, blends with the park without clashing with the neoclassical architectural elements.
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
The greenish glazed envelope encloses an interior space with polished black granite floor and horizontally placed acoustical panels, of perforated grey aluminium, separated by narrow maple fascia.
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
The three-story high entrance hall, dominated by an elevator clad in the same polished black granite as the floor, receives daylight through the roof.
Photo courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Model
Drawing courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Site Plan
Drawing courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Ground Floor Plan
Drawing courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
First Floor Plan
Drawing courtesy Manfredi Nicoletti
Sections
Total area: 20,000 square meters
New Addition: 8,000 square meters
Completed: 2007
Client: Comune di Arezzo
Architect: Studio Nicoletti
Collaborators:
L. Campagna
A. Senesi
P Leone
D. De Santis
Assistant architect: F. Pagliano Tajani
Layout: Michele Valentini
Structures: M. Mele
Services: E.N.E.T.E.C.
Fire protection: Studio Sorrento
Q.S.: R. Postorino
Work supervision: Antonio Sorrento
Construction: Nembo srl
February 4, 2008