The study Garcés - de Seta - Bonet together with Serra-Vives Cartagena Architects have won the competition for the rehabilitation and expansion of the "Palace of Justice in Strasbourg", France.

The architectural part and interior of an approach and a philosophy of sustainable development is a commitment that has subscribed to all of our team. The design of this project will consist of a series of related disciplines in a systems approach, considering environmental issues as a privilege and motor, and a source of inspiration.Also, the specific context of this program, vocation, repositions, as a priority in the environmental quality approach, human, psychological and sensory comfort, which is part of the priority objectives, and will be widely discussed and a priority in its spatial dimensions, and emotional activity, which we consider as prerequisites for the development of other components (hygrothermal, acoustic, visual).

The proposed project is based on the following basic operations:

- Retrieve the literal expression of the neo-classical facades of the palace set and create a new roof, which houses part of the program and at the same time, covers the entire building.

- Resolve the current functional order by introducing a new body in the occupied part of the former zone. The new volume contains all the inner rooms of audience. The central arrangement allows public circulation areas directed to the heart of the building, while controlling other independent flows and necessary for users. The organization of these independent flows separate streams is also guaranteed in the basement.

- Create a new patio that evidences from the interior access, dialogue between the neoclassical architecture of the building and the existing contemporary language of the new intervention.

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Main architects: Garcés-De Seta-Bonet, Arquitectes.
Architects: Serra-Vives Cartagena Arquitectos.
Team collaborators: Setec bâtiment (installations), VP Cité (environment), G.V. Enginerie (construction economics), Frédéric Teschner Estudio (signage).
Date project: January 2012.
Surface: 14.917,70 m².
Promoter: A.P.I.J. (Agence Publique pour l’Immobilier de la Justice).
Site: Estrasburgo, Francia.

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Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta and Anna Bonet Architects. The 2011 partnership of Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet inaugurated a new era of international competitions and commissions that integrates and continues Jordi Garcés's already established career: the winning projects of the international competition for the New Maritime Station of Syracuse in Sicily (Italy) and the competition for the Renovation and Extension of the Palace of Justice in Strasbourg (France), as well as the new building annexed to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and the recently completed studio building for the painter Arranz-Bravo, reflect a new professional complementarity from both a generational and cultural perspective.

Jordi Garcés. was born in Barcelona on June 25, 1945, and studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture. He has been an architect since 1970 (Barcelona School of Architecture).

He earned his PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1987 and has been a professor of design at the ETSAB (National Technical University of Catalonia) since 1975. He has been a visiting professor or external expert since the 1995-96 academic year at the Ecole Polytechique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland).

Of his body of work, the following stand out for their greater visibility: the Picasso Museum in Barcelona; the Navarre Art Museum in Pamplona; the Olympic Pavilion in the Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona; the Plaza Hotel in Barcelona; the Museum of Science and the Cosmos in Tenerife; and the headquarters of the Francisco Godia Foundation in Barcelona.

Daria de Seta has been an architect since 1998 (Faculty of Architecture in Naples). With a PhD in Architecture and Museography from the Polytechnic of Milan and the ETSA of Barcelona (2004), she has been a guest lecturer at various European universities and has taught on the Master's program "Spaces and Communication" at HEAD in Geneva, directed the Cours en Projet et Construction at L'HEPIA in Geneva, and is currently a professor of Projectes III and Global Project at Elisava.

After collaborating with Renzo Piano and MBM Architects (among others) and designing her own projects, she joined Jordi Garcés' studio in 2005.

She has always combined design practice with theoretical and critical activity, curating architecture and photography exhibitions and publishing articles in Italian and Spanish industry magazines. Her latest published book is Giuseppe Pagano. Vocabulary of Images, Lampreave & Millán, Madrid 2009.

 Anna Bonet Giné, architect since 2003 (Barcelona School of Architecture). After collaborating with various firms such as Dani Freixes i Varis Architects and MMBM, she joined Jordi Garcés' studio in 2007. In parallel, she is working on several of her own projects, such as the Porqueres Library, Casa Badrena, and some specific interventions at the Museum of the History of Catalonia (the latter in collaboration with Daria de Seta).

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Published on: June 26, 2012
Cite: "Remodelation of the Palace of Justice. First Prize" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/remodelation-palace-justice-first-prize> ISSN 1139-6415
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