Internally, the project is based on the façade that articulates and illuminates the functional spaces of the interior, ending in an interior courtyard that reconnects with an exit to the street. The project is made with concrete and brick, as materials from the area.
Description of project by Project Team
The Project for the Defensoría Zonal N°2 of the city of Santa Fe, is a work of great importance for the Poder Judicial since it will achieve a notable improvement in the justice service that is now provided in that area of the city.
It is noteworthy that the building had to be inserted in a triangular terrain with particular measurements, that gave the indications that generated the final morphology of the work.
The design premises and project generators were fundamentally the intention that the building was a milestone, a neighborhood referent with a unique and marqued institutional image, which stands out for its particular façade but is mimetized and respects its environment through its height and its materiality.
The building functionally has a semi-covered outer hall through which you can access the interior of the building through a ramp. In the interior, there is the main hall with the reception and the police guard, the different judicial dependencies are developed distributed by the corridor of circulation and public waiting, where the offices of the employees of the ombudsman's office are located, the office of the ombudsman , the mediation room, public health and personnel.
It is noteworthy that the building has solar collectors that will use the energy captured for own consumption and can also inject excess energy into the distribution lines of the Provincial Energy Company of Santa Fe. A reservoir has also been designed for the rainwater, it acts as a retarder of the rain surplus avoiding the expulsion of rainwater immediately to the outside of the building contributing to a better response of the drainage system as a whole.
A building of justice that tries to facilitate the accessibility and the approach of the citizen, improving in this way the service of justice to the community, in addition, pretends to contribute as far as the neighborhood equipment and the urban improvement.
