TRT LAW COURTS COMPLEX | FORUM
An opportunity to create a place, without defined frontiers or limits, opened to the common individual and society, which only by their presence will become completed of purpose: an institution, civic in its excellence. It becomes fundamental the creation of a democratic space: a new monumental square and an expressive urban landmark.
The project is designed by two main conditions: the need of a 1st Phase execution in the north portion of the site and the preservation of an existing building at the other site's extreme. Allied to it, the lack of public spaces in the local urban fabric, the block's insertion in a predominantly residential area and the symbolic and institutional character of the complex resulted in a site plan idealized in two volumes, integrated by a monumental proportions square that qualifies the public space and its surrounding, besides enabling the creation of an imposing architectonical group, consistent with the values and activities exercised in it.
The buildings and the square scale intensify each other revealing the respectable function sheltered in there: an imposing architecture but of subtle dialogue. Two volumes that face each other reflecting and interacting in different ways: the verticality of their lines and the strength of their pure geometry. The colors speak autonomously by symbolic meanings. The neutrality that justice holds in black and white united by the red color present in the solar protection elements of the facades, but above all, as a reference to the official color that represents the institution of Law. Besides that, the main plenary assembly is located in the center of the public square, revealing its symbolic importance to the citizens. Small openings in its roof illuminate its interior in a poetical way, as a constellation, being arranged precisely as states in the national flag.
Considering noble degree of the institution represented, architecture uses symbols and meanings to communicate with its users and the city. At the same time its laconic volumes relates to its horizontal surrounding, it also imposes a new urban landmark necessary in the Goiania context. A new architecture of great force emerges, in simple volumes of subtle comprehension but of dignified materiality, besides a precise site plan composition strategy that integrates the existing building to the new architecture.
An architecture that communicates with the people and offers them at least one moment of emotion - of pause. Regarding the city, the project reveals itself in a unique way: a new symbol of the noble institution that architecture could only create.
On the Phase 1 volume the program is distributed to facilitate the building of greatest external public operation of the complex. On the building first floor, located on the second lower level, are housed the uses of public character like
banks and service stations, besides of all service spaces, communicated directly with T-51 Street.
On the first lower floor we find a large cultural space in an area of great circulation that houses the future plenary access and the underground connection with the second phase buildings. On the main floor - accessed from the monumental square - as well as on the mezzanine, are located the uses of free access character, as the associations and the citizen service.
The five higher floors host the 20 judicial courts, 4 per floor and each one with autonomous functioning. A restaurant, the judges’ area and the courses rooms are located in the last floor, besides the terrace of large proportions.
The project focuses on the workspaces quality, solving the illumination and ventilation problems in a unique way that provides a significant reduction of the energy consume because of the high use of the natural resources. The flexile use of the double glass facade makes the building strengthen its force and formal sobriety creating an efficient protection against solar radiation and also collaborating to an energetic and imagery performance of architecture.
