Final project of Palace of Justice

3D Model

The project of the Palace of Justice of Catania was commissioned to Francesco Fichera in 1936. The building, located within the large square Giovanni Verga, required a thorough process of study and design, which was followed by 15 years to complete the construction. Fichera experimented various solutions, as shown by the many archive drawings, arriving at five hypotheses, the last corresponds to the realized project. The fifth design proposal can be seen in the following 3D model. After the study of similar plants, Fichera proposes the last solution with the presence of a high and deep rectangular apse behind the bench of the court. The compositional and distributive system results in fact more logical and functional, with a orthogonal plant to the front avenue, rather than assimilating the irregular shape of the lot.