Buildings
Architect: Ángel Borrego - OSS.
The Lightest File in the World.
The civil registry must attend to an influx of public that exceeds that of judicial cases. The contents of the Registry Archive act in some ways as a symbol of the social structure. Understanding the volume of the Archive as a structure, the entire operation of the Registry building is organized around it.
The project is a single easily understandable object, the gesture of raising the Archive, making it visible and serving as support for public access, creating a large continuous window on three floors that are only one. The Archive as a structural support of great depth and therefore of great resistance makes it possible to avoid pillars in most of the useful surface. This gesture produces a single space suitable for the public to wait. The waiting rooms offer activities during the wait: sports, games, cinema on the stairs, documentaries, immersive works of art such as those by PipiloUi Rist, etc.
Architect: Rafael de La-Hoz Castanys Arquitectos.
The proposed structure responds to the following concept: radially arranged screens support the helical slabs and, in turn, the trusses that crown the second volume, also arranged radially, support the office floors.
The scale, a symbol of justice, serves as a source of inspiration in this proposal. The dual composition of this figure, formed by two hanging saucers in balance and a support from which they hang, suggests the volumetry and function of the building; identifying these two elements. The base of the scale is a helicoid that emerges from the ground with momentum and which houses those areas from where justice is administered.
The courtrooms: The hanging “saucers” contain the rest of the internal departments from which justice is processed and decided: the UPAD and SCP. The rest of the public service uses on the ground floor sink into the ground so that they are hidden, their access being guessed from the ground level through a circular ramp. The tripartite division of the program (courtrooms, courts and public service) is therefore differentiated in the volumetry; which appears as a large floating disk, whose interior is emptied to house a spiral that sinks into the ground, leaving a concentric patio between them.
From the main lobby of the building, located on the ground floor, you can see the set of rooms that run in a spiral creating a central atrium illuminated from above. The ramp is supported punctually by three elevator cores. The evacuation of the building is resolved through the ramps on both sides of the viewing rooms, which constitute a protected corridor in case of fire. The below-ground floors are occupied by the rolling program connected to: the tunnel (loading and unloading area, parking spaces and detainee area), the large archive (double-height robotic), the rest of the archives and warehouses, and installation areas.
An English patio, as a perimeter tear, allows lighting the administrative rooms below ground level and solving the evacuation of the basements.
Architect: Norman Foster and Partnerships.
The Superior Court of Justice is housed in a 74-meter-diameter building characterized by a high and narrow entrance.
Opening onto a triangular-shaped central courtyard, the emphasis is placed on vertical movement in contrast to the curved spaces of the Provincial Court. This patio cuts through the building directing the eye towards the seven viewing rooms on the upper floor while the lower floors are occupied by a ring of administrative offices and public information centers. The presidential office is located in the most prominent position of the building, located on the top level above the courtrooms.
Architect: Norman Foster and Partnerships.
With an entrance provided with security systems, the Provincial Court is made up of six floors that surround a circular atrium with undulating walls that ascend to a glass roof. A water mirror on the ground floor, emulating Spanish vernacular architecture, reflects natural light and passively refreshes the environment while humidifying the air.
The first two floors house the 33 viewing rooms, distributed in groups of two and three that are connected by bridges. This grouping is due to the division of the courtrooms into criminal, civil and commercial, around which circulation in the building is rationalized. The upper floors are located above the volumes of the viewing rooms, providing the building with offices along the perimeter and meeting rooms around the atrium. The presidential office is symbolically located at the top of the building.
Architect: Peí Cobb Freed & Partners.
The Social and Commercial Courts Building is an integral component of the Justice Campus), and as such, it is designed following the same parameters that govern the design of the Campus.
The New Social and Commercial Courts Building opens to the surroundings, taking its place as an extension of the urban fabric in which it is immersed.
All court courtrooms are accessible from a single open public space, with the exception of the two large courtrooms, which are located on the two floors immediately above the ground floor, which is dedicated to general access to the building and where the public service areas are concentrated (registry, lawyers and solicitors, legal service, civitas).
The Ground Floor is planned as an urban plot with two squares through which the different public functions are accessed.
Architect: Fernando García Pino and Manuel García de Paredes Architects.
The proposal arises from the understanding of the organization of the Campus as an “urban forest” in which the possibility of having a void is offered.
The enclosure contains a void as a continuity of the vegetation in which “the buildings” can be placed within the building, to resolve the operation of the program.
The building is designed considering at the same time the built spaces and the voids between them, understanding that the architecture and the appreciation of the space that gives it character is largely found in these intermediate transit spaces between the architectural objects.
From the central space, public circulation is established over a reduced area using the public nuclei, establishing greater control over the movement of visitors through the building. On the contrary, staff access the restricted access nuclei through the perimeter garden.
It includes among the design criteria topics such as the use of rainwater, reuse of gray water for irrigation of the garden areas surrounding the building, or the use of construction systems that save time and human effort and avoid construction-destruction cycles during the construction process.
The double exterior membrane that works as a protective mattress will reduce thermal differences between the exterior and interior of the building.
Architect: Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher.
The great demand for developable land") on the plot, motivated by the need to house the eighteen headquarters of the Courts of the Community of Madrid, motivated the design of the new Civil Courts building") to try to refocus the public space, dispersed and stripped of its destination character, and converted into a simple transition space between the built program.
The proposal addresses this problem by inserting the public space in the heart of its term, opening its interior and integrating it into the campus. The envelope consists of a double ventilated façade, whose outer layer provides transparency as well as solar control. Inside, a discontinuous semicircular atrium is developed around which all the public areas of the building are developed and which allows natural lighting access to the lower levels.
Architect: Rafael de La-Hoz, Jaime Duró Arquitectos.
Architect: Picado-de Blas Arquitectos.
The form and function of the project assume the circular geometry of the Justice Campus and will express the proportions that structure it with the radio-concentric laws.
The project has been divided into three pieces that order and signify each part that is considered defining of the building.
Deanery Building.
The façade is a translucent skin, so that it filters the entry of natural light. Understood as a lamp. An imprecise texture is caused in constant movement even at night, with the interior lights.
Street access: contact with the Campus pergolas through a polychrome and die-cut sheet metal canopy.
Terrace and rest: outdoor area for smokers on the second floor.
The centerpiece is an artifact that generates the structural order of the building. Between the work area and this interior circulation element is the ring of patios. This ring naturally illuminates the interior areas of the core and the office corridors. The patios follow one another in a spiral so that all levels are different, generating various interior landscapes that are essential to recognize the place where a visitor is.
To enable energy savings, "passive" systems are used; double façade") and roofs with thermal inertia to avoid massive heat/cold losses. This scheme, together with the interior ventilation through the ring of patios, will produce a more comfortable climate.
The double skin represents energy savings against sunlight. In this case it is a façade accessible through a light steel structure for maintenance by floors without the need for special external cleaning systems. These vents, together with the interior patios, will produce natural internal ventilation in the hot months.
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership Vidal y Asociados Arquitectos.
The design, in addition to offering 1,175 new parking spaces, is presented as the main entrance to the Justice Campus. In order to perform this function of entrance and meeting place, commercial and restaurant services have been incorporated, intended for both visitors and Campus staff, and distributed around a public plaza. The aim is to create a place where people can meet and interact.
The new Parking Building - P7, introduces an element of fun usually absent in this type of buildings. The team formed by Richard Rogers Partnership and Vidal y Asociados architects has worked on this project in order to create a space that changes the image of a dull activity into a pleasant user experience.
A low energy consumption services strategy has also been incorporated, optimizing the entry of natural light into the building and natural ventilation.
The building is divided into two: The north zone adjacent to the road, where the facilities, vehicle access, etc. are located. and the southern zone that looks towards the Justice Campus"), where the pedestrian accesses are located and interact directly with the people.
The building has 5 floors above ground and 3 below ground. Commercial and restaurant functions are concentrated at street level.
The building is divided into three segments: two drums contain the parking, which is separated by a higher, more open mixed space, located on the ground level. The building is accessed through this space, either by car or on foot. The solidity of the two drums that contain the parking lot is emphasized by the treatment of the façade, while the central area is much more perforated and open, having a more complex shape. The cars are arranged in three rings with two lanes that give access to the parking spaces, each one with one-way traffic.
The central space of the building is open - a light well - with a diameter of 20 meters and a painted steel structure. It contains the elevators and an open staircase, this being the only vertical circulation core for parking users. The concrete emergency stairs are located at the ends of the floor.
The Roof Level is dedicated to installations and solar collection"). The solar panels will be placed in concentric rings, so that at the same time they provide solar protection to the light well.
The building façade is treated in layers: an interior level provides protection for people and cars, and an exterior level provides visual protection and architectural expression. The exterior façade is a light tension system composed of a light steel structure and an elastic layer. The steel structure is attached to the edges of the floor and is made of painted steel posts (held in compression) and a system of steel cables (held in tension). The white textile has varying degrees of transparency but due to its geometry and elasticity the appearance will be sculpted by light and shadow.
This exterior façade is furthermore suspended in front of the building and swings out of reach. The façade allows light to enter during the day, and at night it will shine. In this way, the appearance of the building will vary with the movement of the sun (diurnal variations), the intensity of sunlight (seasonal variations), and with day to night, giving an iconic image to the building.
Architects: Frechilla and López Peláez Arquitectos.
The architecture studio of Frechilla and López Peláez Arquitectos, in addition to having won the competition for the urbanization project of the Madrid Justice Campus with its proposal for a garden structure and the creation of circular buildings to make up the complex, have created one of the buildings in the complex: the building dedicated to energy production.