Kurian Jacob

AD4012

Re-Inhabiting the Palace of Justice

The project finds itself in understanding relationships, vital in analyzing and critiquing built environment. The Palace of Justice within the Chandigarh capitol complex with its dysfunctional relationships and order is appropriately re-imagined based on the broader ideas of inculcating discourse and accountability between governance and people. The university proposed within the capitol complex finds itself as the museum and department of history within the building and  becomes a portal of history, emphasizing its importance as a means to understand the past and negotiate the present and the future.     


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Context and relationships

Understanding function, form and order

Point of critique based on physical and philosophical order

Point of critique based on functional relationships and detailing

Re-imagining the Palace of Justice based on relationships

Re-imagined ground based on cohesiveness of function and scales

Accommodating the learning environment within the existing based on structural order and functional relationships

Re-imagining a vitally neglected terrace

Sectional relationships and facade detailing

Intervened elevations and modulation of ground