Antequera Judicial Headquarters

The building parameters limited the height to five storeys and a maximum occupancy of 50%. The available site would be completed with the buildings of the State Security Forces, within a recently-created, growing residential area. A setting with no valuable references prevented its layout from being considered; rather, the proportions of the enclave, with an eighty-metre frontage on the main road and a drop of almost two metres, would condition the final presence of the building. The building, while remaining representative, was appropriate to the functional needs of users and workers, and appropriate to the scale of the site.

A dense building capable of operating satisfactorily on the inside, but at the same time humanised within, pursuing solid and robust values but without forgetting concepts such as transparency and clarity, all of which are the foundations of the exercise of Justice itself.

With so few initial attractions, the dialogue between place and architecture was very limited. This forced autonomy led us to consider a contained and compact architecture by developing a building in length, on a large public platform from which emerges a prism of great rotundity as a courthouse tower.