Feuerwache Landstraße
Vienna, Austria
Fire Station
Competition
August, 2018
Logic dictates that a fire station of this scale, on a site with very little flexibility, requires a compact solution. Our design began with precisely such a strategy: a compact and spatially efficient cubic volume. However, the atmospheric realities of the site require another approach. The noise of a looming highway overpass was the main reason for decoupling the mass. The boarding rooms are arranged in a bar at the opposite end of the site from the highway overpass. The bar is detached from the main tuck hall with a garden buffer zone. The building is further separated by distinguishing the truck hall as an autonomous volume, engaged to the main public functions. The tower is fully disengaged from the building but maintains a material consistency. The façade is a mixture of colored concrete, aluminum, and tinted glass; each material working in a chromatic union of reddish hues.
Location: Vienna, Austria
Principal use: Fire Station
Site area: 5000 m2
Building area: 1000 m2
Total floor area: 2000 m2
Number of stories: 3
Design team: Chieh-shu Tzou, Gregorio S. Lubroth, Deniz Önengüt, Uwe Brunner, Carina Zabini, Katia Simas, Christina Haslauer
Structural Engineering: Werkraum Ingenieure
Climate Engineering: Exikon, Ulrich Pont