competition entry, 1st prize
address: Dunajska cesta, Ljubljana, Slovenia

project: 2021

Bevk Perović project team:
Matija Bevk
Vasa J. Perović
Blaž Goričan
Kaja Stopar
Samo Bojanec
Rok Primažič
Mitja Usenik

Collaborators:
Gašper Blejec, univ. dipl. inž. grad.
Ivan Hafner, univ. dipl. inž. grad.
Rudi Grahek, univ. dipl. inž. str.

The program of the courthouse is architecturally and functionally divided into two sets, into the public part of the courtrooms, which are all placed in the northern extended tower and into the set of offices occupying the southern part of the building and upper triangular volume.

This achieves two things: the northern ‘tower’ becomes the main element of the design, is the first and most visible element, the representation of the judicial work and the nominal transparency of the judiciary as an institution.

At the same time the immediacy of connections between judges and courtrooms is created. Courtrooms are easily and efficiently connected to the office floors with very short communication routes. This also applies for all visitors in the public part of the building with one central communication core on the northern part of the ‘courtroom tower’

The object of the court building thus becomes an ‘efficient’ machine of operation and at the same time, also a clearly architecturally articulated part of the city. Duality of the program appears both in the  double image of the object, as well as in articulation of individual interior spaces.