This tower recreates extreme building situations for the training of firemen – using double and triple spaces, spiral staircases, cat ladders, wells, doors, windows, etc. Cantilevered balconies are used for rappelling exercises and vertical rescue dr
The new station housing the police and fire departments for the government district of Berlin is an extension to a now free-standing 19th-century structure, located on the edge of a former goods yard close to the River Spree. To preserve the represen
The town of Moià, some 60 kilometers north of Barcelona, needed to urgently renew its fire station, so in 2016 it called a competition which asked for an industrialized structure that could be built faster. The winning project proposed a light struct
To achieve maximum functional efficiency and a contemporary image with minimum cost, the proposal concentrates the program in a new building placed east of the site, freeing up the rest of the plot for circulation, gymnasium, and drill halls... [+]
The Fire Station for volunteer firefighters in the municipality of Santo Tirso, thirty kilometers from Porto, includes a main building, an observation tower, and a freestanding volume tucked into the slope of the plot. On the outside, two materials –
On the shores of Lake Constance, the two communities of Landschlacht and Scherzingen were united in 1994 to form the new municipality of Münsterlingen. As a consequence of this unification, seven years later, a competition was held for the constructi
A diez minutos a las afueras de París, en un entorno de construcciones heterogéneas, junto a una autopista y unas vías de tren, se ubica el nuevo parque de bomberos de la pequeña ciudad de Nanterre. La necesidad de incluir en el programa un número el
Como parte del programa de conservación del casco histórico de Zaragoza, que plantea la recuperación del antiguo Convento de los Mínimos de la Victoria, se inscribe la construcción de un parque de bomberos y, en una segunda fase, la creación del Muse
