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MUA - Architecture & Placemaking

Tbilisi, GE

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Ozurgeti House of Justice

Ozurgeti is the city in western Georgia. Ozurgeti House of Justice is situated in the North-West part of City on Southern side of K. Gamsakhurdia square, on the adjacent site of the local museum of history. There is a four hundred seat theatre on the Eastern side of the square, residential building on the Northern and boulevard on Wester sides of the square.

The concept behind the building is to bring together a number of services - the Civil Registry Agency, National Agency of Public Registry, National Archives of Georgia, National Bureau of Enforcement and Notary Chamber - under one roof, creating a new blueprint for a government building. As the idea of the frame of a building was to use a classical Greek form. The building is fronted with regular columns, which support a thin white slab. 12 white columns enclose two independent and contrasting glass volumes. This two volumes are placed apart so the space between is used as public covered passageway connecting the square to city’s boulevard.  The Idea of Transparency echoes in Whiteness and lightness of the building.

Team was invited to submit a proposal by Georgia’s House of Justice. The Brief included a design for a 1500m2 building to house 95 members of staff and a flow of 400 users a day, to serve Ozurgeti’s population of 500,000. Construction began in September 2011. The building consists of two 50x22 meters horizontal planes, connected with twelve columns placed perimetrically and two independent glass volumes. One of the volumes is rectangular in plan, 19x19 meters and consists of - ground floor Public Service Hall and offices. Another volume is oval in plan and consists of - ground floor Wedding Hall and offices. Each volume is double storied connected with each other with underground corridor.  Both volumes have 100% transparent low emission glass, which creates brightness inside the building.Top horizontal plane acts as a common roof for both volumes, made in reinforced concrete, Lower horizontal plane acts as common platform and a public space, finished with travertine. Building height is adjusted to the height of the museum, so it creates a symmetrical courtyard between the buildings. There is a passageway which goes in the middle of the building connecting the square and the street behind it.nThe building, as an emphasis of the modern architecture, is placed harmonically in the urban context, because of its scale, which fits the surroundings. 

 
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Status: Built
Location: Ozurget'i, GE