Yolo County Superior Courthouse

Woodland, CA

The Yolo County Superior Courthouse has been transformative for the landscape of the downtown area and harkens back to classic courthouse construction. Featuring an entrance with a set of four grand pillars in front of a spectacular two-story glass wall, the importance of the building is understood before you enter. The lobby walls, which are clad with a custom large stone system, are naturally illuminated by a massive skylight accentuating the varying depth reveals in the stone cladding. The structure is designed to separate the public from court staff and defendants awaiting their proceedings as well as to resist the progressive collapse of the structure from an explosive attack on the gravity system as mandated by the California Trial Courts Facilities Standards.