The courthouse has great significance as a public building, often shrouded in opaque monumental forms, that signify dominance. Our version of the courthouse intends to take away the opacity while retaining the monumental splendour. Law has always had a broad scope of understanding and prescribes to different sensibilities of different people. Architecture and architectural forms however consistently have some connotations that adhere to understanding of spaces and programs. Architecture through its form and shape can create various expected or unexpected moments, that are orchestrated, in this case with the employ of materials, tectonics and program. For justice to exist, as an architectural element of democratic society, the form could very well be the exaggeration of growth, solidity and progress. The city skyline, often dominated by tall solid figures of commercial milestones, the justice seems to be  small stubby remnant of the Greek era, with not much to offer to the 21st century idea of armchair justice with trails that face the scrutiny of media.

// With our play in material transparency we are trying to strip away the ‘black’ cloak of mystery that usually tends to be associated with the aesthetics of a courthouse.

This transparency is orchestrated through both materials and actions. The facade colors inspired from LA skyline photographs, merge, stand out, fade in the ever changing cityscape.

// Primitive shapes develop into buildings taking cues from verbs. Shift, distort, cut, the verbs that one can associate with justice and its likes, have found their way into the massing.

// The courthouse tells its story, quite frankly, with colors, opacity, reflections, often distorted giving a fair idea of where the action takes place, while hiding the actual proceedings.