Text description provided by the architects. In order to adapt to the current needs of the Ministry of Justice, the whole building of the Palace of Justice needs to be rehabilitated.

Court Diagrams

The functional program of the Courts needs to be adjusted, complying all the new regulations required in the CTE (Technical Construction Code), solving issues such as accesibility for people with disabilities, evacuation and energy efficiency.

Cross Section

The intervention highlights the value of the current building, preserving completely its four facades until the level of cornice, replacing and improving the profiles of the windows and undertaking the cleaning and treatment of the stone and brick.

Above the first stone cornice, previously there was another floor and an inclined roof, which had worse quality compared to the rest of the building. That’s why it is replaced by a new volume, lighter and diaphanous, that by its material quality tends to merge with the sky, highlighting the noble part of the existing building.

The use of a perforated metallic lattice protects the glazed facade of radiation, but achieves permeability allowing the passage of light and views through the building.

The new upper volumen acquires a neutral and transparent caracter, dematerialazing above the current cornice during the day and acting as a luminous lantern at night.

Longitudinal Section

The soul of the intervention links with an already extensive contemporary tradition of approaching existing buildings with the purpose os revitalizing them, making overlays or additions of new volumes with modern language that helps revive and enhance the inherited.

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• Architects

  Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos

• Location

  Plaza de los Juzgados, 1, 34001 Palencia, Spain

• Category

  Sustainability

• Architects in Charge

  M? Jose Aranguren Lopez y Jose Gonzalez Gallegos

• Area

  4345.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Jesus Granada