Zaha Hadid Architects Fire Station 05 04 03 02 01 Date Location Project Client Size Status Built , am Rhein, Weil Vitra International Vitra Vitra Fire Station Fire Vitra AG 852m² 1991 / 1993 1991 hermetic from a frontal reading, revealing reading, revealing a frontal hermetic from a perpendicular only from the interiors viewpoint. the spaces between these walls, which these walls, the spaces between puncture, tilt and break according to building is functional requirements. The for the development of the architectural the development for series of walls. layered concept: a linear, The programme of the firestation inhabits device against the bordering buildings. device functions screening and space-defining The the point of departure of the building were a long, narrow building alongside the street a long, narrow site, which marks the edge of the factory and which also functions as a screening isolated object, it was developed as the developed isolated object, it was defining zone: landscaped the of edge outer was space. This space rather than occupying into stretching the programme by achieved of the linear patterns of the adjacent agricultural fields and vineyards. Thus, rather than designing the building as an site, where the fire station is located, now as a linear landscaped zone, envisaged was almost as if it were the artificialextension whole site, giving identity and rhythm to the whole site, giving identity and rhythm the complex. main street running through the chair street - which stretches from This museum to the other end of the factory We initiated our design with a study of We intention was site. Our factory the overall to place the elements of our commission not be lost would that they in such a way We sheds. the enormous factory between also used these elements to structure the 06 07

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sliding planes enclosing the garage, and the treatment of the interior spaces including lines of light direct the lighting scheme. The movement the necessarily precise and fast the building. through and the abstract quality of the architectural same absence of detail concept. This large the frameless glazing, the informed attention was given to the sharpness of all to the sharpness given attention was edgings roof attachments like edges; any distract they as avoided claddingswere or the simplicitythe prismatic form of from The whole building is constructed of The concrete. Special in-situ reinforced exposed, moment. The walls appear to slide past walls moment. The while the large sliding doors each other, wall. a moving literally form of choreographic notations. The whole of choreographic notations. The It expresses frozen. building is movement, the tension of being on the alert; and the into action at any potential to explode are inscribed into the asphalt. Similarly, are inscribed into the asphalt. Similarly, the ritualized exercises of the firemen series a ground; inscribed into the willbe As one passes across the spaces of the of spaces the across passes one As large the of glimpses catches one firestation, red fire engines.Their lines of movement Craig Kiner Craig Kar Wha Ho Yee-Wong Voon Verissimo Cristina Simon Koumjian Simon GonzalezEdgar Rossi Maria Oakley R. Daniel Nicola Cousins Gomersall David Weishaupt Olaf Patrik Schumacher Patrik Team Design Design HadidZaha Schumacher Patrik ProjectArchitect

Zaha Hadid Architects Vitra Fire Station