21/10/2026
The expansion of Rome’s Judicial City is conceived as a continuation of the landscape rather than as an autonomous architectural object.
The park extends towards the city, rising gently from the ground to accommodate the courthouse within the space it generates. Above, a water square continues the landscape as a horizontal plane, reflecting the profile of Monte Mario and dissolving the presence of the building into its surroundings.
The courthouse is structured as a continuous sequence of interconnected circular spaces, organized around planted courtyards and illuminated by zenithal light. Courtrooms and public functions gather around these spaces, while offices and ancillary programmes occupy the levels above.
This spatial structure recalls a persistent archetype in Rome’s civic architecture: the circular, continuous and dynamic public space, capable of organizing movement, encounter and collective life. From the Pantheon and St Peter’s to the Campidoglio and Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, this tradition has repeatedly shaped the city through spaces in which architecture is experienced less as an object than as a field of relationships.
The project translates this genealogy into a contemporary courthouse, where landscape, civic space and institutional function converge in a single spatial system.
Rome, IT - Competition, 2026
Client: Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti
Architecture: Superspatial, with Joanna Rozbroj
Structural engineering, MEP, BIM, sustainability: Sinergo Spa® - Progettazione integrata
