
Designed by a team of graduate students, including Tabitha Nzilani, Obare Joash, Lomole Daniel, and Kuria Eric, their second prize winning proposal in the Kenya Judicial Architectural competition embraces the people coming to seek justice. The project invites visitors in through the adoption of a semi-circular form, which is inward curving to the entrance, and vertical elements which are also receding inwards. Anchoring on a central core that has two wings, these wings are representative of the scale of justice: on one side being the law and on the other the deed. More images and architects’ description after the break.
We undertook the competition while we were in our final year (6th Year) at the University of Nairobi, Department of Architecture on the date of 16th March 2012, the Results were announced and presided over by the Kenya’s Chief Justice Dr. Willy Mutunga on the 29th of May 2012. We emerged Position 2. The winner was Architect Anthony Macharia. The Kenya’s Architectural Association cited some contentious issues which are undergoing discussion.

