Ipswich Justice Precinct
Queensland
Architect Completed
2011
Project Information
Our most compelling aim for the Ipswich Courts project was to humanise the experience of the justice system, one that is often alienating and exacerbated by typically confronting civic architecture. ...
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Our most compelling aim for the Ipswich Courts project was to humanise the experience of the justice system, one that is often alienating and exacerbated by typically confronting civic architecture. Simultaneously, we sought to contribute to and enrich the public realm of Ipswich, especially as the site terminates the city’s main civic axis along South Street. The generating concept was to ‘erode’ the site, forming a significant new public space rather than a building frontage to the axis, around which the sequence of circulation spaces is wrapped and engaged. This strategy concurrently facilitated clarity of organisation of complex functional requirements, especially as the Courthouse comprises both Magistrates and District Courts having different operational processes. Intrinsic to the design process was the collaboration with artists externally and internally to both enrich the spatial experiences and impart cultural relevance and meaning. In both its detail and materiality, our purpose was to embody the outstanding quality of Ipswich’s historic public buildings, the spire being also a ubiquitous characteristic across the city.
Conceptual Framework:
The primary conceptual aims were to humanise the experience of the justice system, express the value of the individual within it, and to generate architecture and space that enriches Ipswich’s civic environment. The key strategy was to ‘erode’ the site simultaneously creating a new public space terminating the city’s main civic street, and forming a series of human-scaled transitional spaces into and through the precinct.
Conceptual Framework:
The primary conceptual aims were to humanise the experience of the justice system, express the value of the individual within it, and to generate architecture and space that enriches Ipswich’s civic environment. The key strategy was to ‘erode’ the site simultaneously creating a new public space terminating the city’s main civic street, and forming a series of human-scaled transitional spaces into and through the precinct.
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