An opportunity for students & locals to be a part of the courtroom experience.
As an extension of the Syracuse University Law School, this project creates a learning environment within the once sacred garden space of the Villa Rossa, located in Florence, Italy. By reinventing the courtyard space into an outdoor courtroom, this programmatic device will create dramatic judicial scenes, new to the eyes of the S.U. students as well as the people of Florence.
Taking precedent from Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio, his conceptual ideas that portrayed “architecture for the people ” is taken to a different level of understanding. By opening the Villa Rossa courtyard to the street and creating central pulpit spaces, an immediate relationship can be made between peers... teacher to student... judge to jury... lawyer to citizens.
