All citizens should be able to access justice with the same rights. The building for the Zonal Defensoría Number 2 of Santa Fe, Argentina, designed by a group of architects and technicians (Arq. Juan Valiente, Arq. Sebastián Adelia, Arq. Luis Carreras, Tec. Javier Gonzalez, Tec. Bruno Gripaldi, Arq. Barbara Battle Casas, Architect Sebastian Soriano), tries to improve those rights.
The project team was commissioned by the Judicial Power of the Province of Santa Fe to design the project in a complicated triangular plot. The access is made through one of the vertices, intelligently leaving the narrowest angle as a transit space between the interior and exterior while enlarging the perception of the access door.

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.

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Arq. Juan Valiente, Arq. Sebastián Adelia, Arq. Luis Carreras, Tec. Javier Gonzalez, Tec. Bruno Gripaldi, Arq. Barbara Battle Casas, Arq. Sebastian Soriano.
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Poder Judicial de la Provincia de Santa Fe.
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Area
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Total area.- 328 m². Covered Area.- 155 m². Semi-covered area.- 100 m².
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Doors and windows.- ABERMAC (ALSAFEX Profiles). Floors.- BLANGINO. Electricity.- BOGGIO ENGINEERING. Alarms.- ACTIVE HOUSE. AACC.- PRONO ENGINEERING. Solar panels.- SolarLAnd (Imports BAUZA INGENIERIA SRL).
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ABB (Importa BAUZA INGENIERIA SRL)
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Year Project.- 2017. Year of Execution.- 2017/2018
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Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province, Argentina.
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Published on: February 28, 2019
Cite: "A singular façade. Defensoría Zonal N°2 by Valiente, Adelia, Carreras, Gonzalez, Gripaldi, Battle Casas, Soriano" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/a-singular-facade-defensoria-zonal-ndeg2-valiente-adelia-carreras-gonzalez-gripaldi-battle-casas-soriano> ISSN 1139-6415
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