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Fire Station In Girona

FIRE STATION IN GIRONA

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Fire Station In Girona
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ARCHITECTS
 Mizien

LOCATION
Amer, spain

CATEGORY
Fire station

AREA
935.0 m²

PROJECT YEAR
2011

Fire Station In Girona
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Text description provided by architect.

The fire station occupies the old train sheds of the Girona-Olot carrilet narrow-gauge railway line. Before the project to remodel and extend the facilities, the station was operating but its installations were obsolete.

Fire Station In Girona
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Fire Station In Girona
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The project consisted in adapting it to present-day needs and repairing the constructive pathologies and deficiencies of a building which, though not listed architectural heritage, is unique and forms part of a railway complex that has an important historic and cultural value.

Fire Station In Girona
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Fire Station In Girona
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The project reconciles the functional requirements of operative architecture with a brief clearly defined by questions of safety and service, and the desire to maintain and enhance the singularity of the building.

It addresses the contextual issues of the building’s image and its relation with the landscape and setting, and its constructive specificity.

Fire Station In Girona
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Fire Station In Girona
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The original structure built of train rails is recovered, as are the openings in the façade that had been modified.

A volume of Corten steel forms the extension, employing a familiar language to that of the railway landscape both in its size and in the choice of materials and the finish of details.

Fire Station In Girona
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Fire Station In Girona
ground floor plan
Fire Station In Girona
1st floor plan

Fire Station In Girona
site plan


Fire Station In Girona
elevation 01
Fire Station In Girona
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