rummet och r ä t te n 615 a bar usually constituted the boundary between the spectators and the actual participants of the session.As a rule, the parties would stand on the actual platform when speaking to the court, but since there was no standard furnishing, conditions varied. As studies of contemporary everyday routines show, it soon became evident that the new courthouse design was poorly adapted to the practices of the permanent administration, which required large office premises with fire-proof archives and several workrooms. Similar to courthouses in the early19th century, the architecture rather resembled a private mansion and this seems to be an adequate reference in those cases where the judge’s spacious flat covered the first floor of the building. Since the number of court session days was still limited, more than half of the premises were left empty for the main part of the month, while the layout of the other half did not correspond to the actual daily activities.The design did not match the functions in practice. After the Second World War, a new conception of what courthouses should look like was expressed, which concerned both layout and style. The change meant that classicist principles were abandoned and that functions were distinctly distributed within the structure and exposed in the exterior.The district court’s office and the premises related to the actual court sessions were placed in separate parts of the building complex, only attached through a passage or corridor.Thus, the previously central courtroom was once and for all dislocated. There had been tendencies of such a development in the early years of the century and in the 1920s and1930s, the National Board of Public Buildings, successor of the Superintendent’s Office, had commented on courthouse drawings in a way which indicated new ideas.The Board also co-operated with the Ministry of Justice in order to establish a standard furnishing plan for the courtroom, a plan which was spread and applied before the outbreak of the war.At this point, everyone involved in the planning of new courthouses was aware of the principle contents of the new code of judicial procedure, which replaced the inquisitorial procedure with the adversarial in 1942. The system with two parties entailed new conditions in the courts and the architecture was supposed to make way for the changes.The predominant ambition of all creative professions at the time, not least architects, was to cut loose from decorum and let practical function rule design. The new building of the court. Courthouses in the 1950s
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