NEW LAW COURT _ LA CHAUX DE FONDS, SWITZERLAND _ 2012

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Switzerland / 2012

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BUILT-UP AREA: 17.000 sqm - 185.000 sqft TYPE: Government, Office, Retail BUILDING COST: 33.000.000 CHF The project is placed within a general requalification plan of the city. It is the central hub of connection between the new square of the station and the future district of Le Corbusier, as a completion of an urban void. The new building gives an urban facade, completing the existing area. With its spatial permeability, the complex allows to maintain the relationship between the new district and the station, generating an East-West visual axis that links this part of the urban grid. The commercial functions, such as the cafeteria, the restaurant and the public services are located on the ground floor. The type of intervention adopted, has easily allowed to provide the separation of the three sections, CI, PP and the GS, clearly distinct and independent. The vertical distribution is placed in the horizontal band that faces the new residential district, while the offices and the courtrooms are distributed along the protruding arms all enjoying natural daylight and the overlook to the open groundfloor or the square. The study of the plant system and the attention to construction details make a positive contribution to improve the comfort of the building's occupants and to reduce environmental impacts through strategies such low-impact and regenerative site development, energy and water conservation and design that improves indoor air quality.
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    BUILT-UP AREA: 17.000 sqm - 185.000 sqft TYPE: Government, Office, Retail BUILDING COST: 33.000.000 CHF The project is placed within a general requalification plan of the city. It is the central hub of connection between the new square of the station and the future district of Le Corbusier, as a completion of an urban void. The new building gives an urban facade, completing the existing area. With its spatial permeability, the complex allows to maintain the relationship between the new...

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    • Year 2012
    • Status Competition works
    • Type Public Squares / Law Courts
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