First project drawing 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 first preliminary study can be deduced from the following 3D model, Fichera represents a building with a central plan and a circular courtyard joined by four large arms in the shape of St. Andrew’s cross.