The Cittadella Giudiziaria designed by David Chipperfield is a great architectural work close to the city’s shopping centre, a work that, with its buildings of different level and colour, presents a welcoming justice and open to citizenship.
The new Tribunal of Salerno is located in the Cittadella Giudiziaria, designed by the British architect David Chipperfield: a functional work to the needs of judicial administration of the Salento area, but also a great work of architecture and a functional redesign of a central part of the city.
The work has proceeded, with alternate fortunes and difficult constructive events, from 2003 to 2017 and the transfer of the Judicial Offices was completed in 2020.
David Chipperfield’s project was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. The building covers six buildings surrounded by greenery, with large windows; each building is of different height and with alternating colors: green, red, ocher.
The buildings are then connected by a series of porticos and courtyards and placed on a black stone plate.
The area in which the judiciary complex rises is between the road that runs along the Irno river, the railways of the State near the station and the sea. The intervention redesigned the entire urban area close to the shopping center.
A sculpture, the Lighthouse of Justice of Ben Jakober and Yannich Vu, designed and built at the same time as the structure, is located near the main entrance of the Citadel.
