Jerusalem Courthouse, Israel Law Court Architecture, Image, Architect, Design

Jerusalem Court House

Legal Building in Israel – design by Chyutin Architects

8 Dec 2011

Jerusalem Court House Building

Israel

Architects: Chyutin Architects

Jerusalem District Court House Building

The Urban Context

District Courthouse, Jerusalem

Competition – First prize

The courthouse in Jerusalem is located on a newly designed main public square in the city center of Jerusalem. The building houses all the judiciary levels except the Supreme Court, and contains 113 courtrooms and 135 judges’ chambers. The design of the court building connects and bridges among the host of diverse design languages of the buildings around it while creating a distinctive language of its own.

The court building is designed as a spatial composition in which a vertical rectangular prism, containing the judicial wing, penetrates into a horizontally laid-out prism, with a sloping upper face, housing the judiciary services and the foyer. The vertical prism is divided into two vertical slices, a broad one containing the courtrooms wing and a narrow one containing the judges’ chambers wing.

The building’s design as a simple, minimalistic composition, with each prism housing distinct activities, is in the modern architectural tradition that calls for form to follow function. The logic behind this principle is not merely formal; rather, its aim is to point to functional, technical and economic efficiency. The building is a result of a wining competition.

Jerusalem Court House – Building Information

Architects: Chyutin Architects Ltd in collaboration with Shmaya Zarfati
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Client: Government
Team: Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin, Shmaya Zarfati, Jacques Dahan, Keren Angelman
Area: 50,000 sqm

Jerusalem Court House images / information from Chyutin Architects

Chyutin Architects

Location: Jerusalem, Israel