REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF THE OSUNA COURTHOUSE IN THE CEPEDA PALACE

AWARDS:
-2020 Competition for the Refurbishment and Extension of the Osuna Courthouse in the Cepeda Palace. First prize

SITUATION: Calle de la Huerta, nº10-12, Osuna, Sevilla. >>Open in GOOGLE MAPS
DATES: competition (2020), project (2021-2024)
CLIENT: Consejería de Justicia, Administración Local y Función Pública, Junta de Andalucía
ARCHITECTS: José Antonio Carbajal Navarro, Nicolás Carbajal Ballell and Rodrigo Carbajal Ballell
COLLABORATING ARCHITECTS: Fernando Moreno Humanes, Rafael Rus Sánchez, Alejandro Fernández Serrano and Ana Jiménez García
BUILDING SURVEYORS: Jesús Bozzo Fernández de Tirso
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Calconsa XXI
SERVICES ENGINEER: NP81 Arquitectura e ingeniería SL

The project involves two types of intervention, one of rehabilitation on the mid-18th-century mansion and its 19th-century extension and the other of demolition and construction of a new building on the adjacent plot.
The proposed intervention does not alter the current volumetry of the mansion, on the contrary, it seeks to clean it of elements foreign to its typological structure, such as the lift tower installed in its back patio or the carpentry that closes the high gallery of the main patio. The project initially proposed the covering of this patio with a light glass roof but the Provincial Historical Heritage Commission has not approved it.
The extension, for its part, is resolved with an occupation of the plot that could be interpreted as traditional to the surrounding houses, that is to say, through the incorporation of a longitudinal passage or patio situated along one of the party walls.
The most representative spaces with the most restricted access will be included in the mansion. On the ground floor, occupied mainly by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the visual sequence of entrance hall-patio, characteristic of the typology, is preserved. Next to the entrance hall is the access control, which connects the two buildings. The first bay of the first floor is occupied with multi-purpose spaces and the Gesell Room. This level also houses rooms for lawyers and the mediation service and, in the body adjacent to the Plaza Mayor, the judge’s office with its anteroom and the office of the Direct Procedural Support Unit. This last scheme is repeated on the upper floor.
The semi-basement floor of the extension will contain the detention area and spaces for maintenance, archiving and evidence storage. The ground floor will accommodate the areas with the greatest number of visitors, such as the Civil Registry and the Courtroom. The upper floor will be occupied by the Forensic Medical Clinic and open work spaces corresponding to the Common Service.

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