Nuevos Tribunales de la Ciudad de Reconquista, Santa Fe Law Courts building, Argentina architecture design
Nuevos Tribunales de la Ciudad de Reconquista
22 July 2022
Design: Office of Architecture of the Poder Judicial de la Provincia de Santa Fe
Location: Lucas Funes street, city of Reconquista, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, South America

Photos by Architect Ramiro Sosa
Nuevos Tribunales de la Ciudad de Reconquista building in Province of Santa Fe, Argentina
Urban Implantation
The building for the Reconquista Courts is located on Lucas Funes street between Pueyrredón street and España avenue, in a low-density sector to the south of the city of Reconquista, province of Santa Fe. The sector presents varied constructions, with tree-lined sidewalks, paved streets and connected to urban and interurban linking routes. The impact of an institution representing the Powers of the State in the area was considered at the time of project development.
The project had as its premise the generation of a “civic” square that would be an opening of the building to the city, as a space of spatial transition between it and the neighborhood scale of the sector.
This open space, which is freely accessed with a scale integrated into the urban fabric, provides a visual opening allowing, in almost the entire perimeter, to appreciate the building in its full magnitude, marking its institutional and contemporary image.

The building leans on the east party wall, locating the publi...