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Family Courts

Part 2 Project 2008
Bruno Giliberto
 University of Chile | Chile
The Project seek to act like an articulation between the park and the city, understanding it not mere as built context but a system of relations between the many different situations which could configure landscape. It is crucial to understand that the research was oriented to the inhabitants of the project –the family on trial- involving it, and been part of it not just to resolve a building capable to operate as the legal response to some problems of this family.

The project aim is to generate a new image to express the new Chilean family court system, closer to the citizen and aiming to challenge the actual and obsolete formal structure. This challenge seeks to questioning this old system and its relations with the city itself.

The research process and its further development were organized by three basic requirements, which are expressed on:

1.-the court’s inner structure which symbolized the justice operation as is established on the Chilean law 19.968 and its requirements to operate.
2.-the architectural programme which support the court’s structure not only seeking to response to the court new needs but to the family requirements through the legal procedures.
3.-the decision to locate the court building’s site on a public park as strategy to promote the park occupation and leisure activities to enable family support through the trial process time and help to repair the family’s intimate core.

The aim to locate the building on a public park seeks to put together court building programme and park’s leisure activities, with the idea of mixing both situation and helping an already stressful process which main goal is to recover the family structure. Open-air and judicature processes as a new understanding for a more accurate and justice system of trials.

The project intent to merge into the park by using a longitudinal axis that already configures the park layout. The building position on the park fixes different points of interest which allows defining perspectives and maximum highs for each part of it. Through this positioning procedure it potentiate and enclosures the city’s horizon.


As. Thesis Advisor, Phd in Architecture, and thesis Professor at Universidad de Chile, familiar with Architectural programs; I can affirm that Bruno Giliberto is an outstanding candidate for RIBA President´s medals competition. Bruno possesses an excellent intellectual competence and an exceptional performance as student, I think that he is one of the best students that I had along the 15 years of academic work.
Bruno is a committed and responsive student. He devotes a lot of time reading and acquiring information not only for his research but also for personal knowledge. Bruno has a great enthusiasm on architectural discipline. Furthermore, Bruno has a genuine interest in current Chilean Architecture and particularly in the judicial buildings in relation to the new judicial reform in Chile.

As a Phd in Architecture from GaTech, Master of Architecture from University of Maryland and professor at Universidad de Chile, familiar with architectural programs, I believe that Bruno's project is not only outstanding and innovative not only as a building solution but also as a reflection around a legal and Regulatory body of knowledge and its creative implementation as architectural space.

2008
Family Courts
In Chile a deep reform at judicial level was made The bad physical and administrative implementation took to a badly operation The 100% of the buildings are adjustment of preexisting buildings, all of them are prepared under the parameters of courts f
New infrastructure is needed to shape a real change, such as the relation of the family with justice. For this it is necessary to unlock the program, including the courts of family in a park, in relation with the life to the free air and the landscape.
The project is located inside of the “inner belt”, plan of rehabilitation of out of bounds territories and weak zones of the city.
The relationship between the park, the Mapocho River and the immediate urban context is fundamental on the project’s proposal. The new Chilean family justice’ system should propose a image closer to the people to serve. To achieve this goal it is essentia
Layers: To understand the project’s operation is needed to precise three different programmes typologies in order to achieve a completely mixture between a leisure urban context –the park- and the court of justice procedures. This enables to convoke the r
he urban position and its relation to the immediate landscape are fundamental to the site. The search for a relevant and preponderant location among Santiago city was primordial to understand project’s signification as a Family Court, and to understand it
Study of the espicies of trees along the Park of Reyes to be part of the proyect is really important to be planned. The work of landscape is fundamental, this is a very relevant and important part of the project.
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Materials
Use of the park
Use of the Building
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Exterior View
Finally, the project’ goal is to materialized the importance of family structure on the society’s organization. Its location’s goal is to operate into an area of increasingly urban flows and to promote a site strategy capable to be applying through the co
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