DECIDING PROCESSES, JUDGING SPACES: the principle of access to justice in forensic architecture and the possibilities of coming, going and seeing.
Forensic architecture. Space syntax. Principle of the right to justice. Federal Court.
Rio Grande do Norte.
The study analyzes relationships between forensic architecture and social rules of the Brazilian Federal Court, having as object of study the buildings of the Judiciary Section of RN. It is based on the Theory of Space Syntax (Hillier; Hanson, 1984), for whom architecture creates the spatial structures in which we live and move and “In that it does so, it has a direct relation - rather than a merely symbolic one - to social life, since it provides the material preconditions for the patterns of movement, encounter and avoidance which are the material realisation - as well as sometimes the generator - of social relations” (Hillier; Hanson, 1984, ix). Knowing that the Federal Justice has been employing several actions with the purpose of becoming more accessible, we seek to know what is the participation of the judicial architecture in this process and to what extent it anchors the principle of access to Justice. The question is prompted by the results of a Pilot Study carried out in the institution's buildings, in which it made clear some characteristics that go against the accessibility, visibility and speeches of its agents, who intend to expand democratization and approachability to the jurisdiction. Our thesis is that the current architecture of the Federal Justice is opposed to the access of justice, and is designed as a model of social relations meant to distantiate users, to exacerbate securitization and to empty sectors inteded to welcome those under jurisdiction, to the detriment of access to jurisdiction.