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Fire Station No. 4

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

FIRE STATION NO. 4

IDOM

ARCHITECTS
IDOM

CLIENTS
Ayuntamiento De Zaragoza

PHOTOGRAPHS
Iñaki Bergera

AREA
13401 ft²

MANUFACTURERS
Cortizo, Europerfil, Beyem, Cimesa, Philips, Sitab

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Antonio Lorén Collado, Raimundo Bambó Naya, José Angel Ruiz Gonzalez

DESIGN TEAM
Nuria Montero García, Alejandro López Pèrez

STRUCTURES
Alberto Ayensa, Javier Bentué

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Antonio Lorén Collado, Rubén Pérez De Marcos, Jesús Gil Finestra, Alejandro Arnedo

LIGHTING
Fernando Catalan Herreros

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
Jorge Guillén Ferrer

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Fernando Catalan Herreros

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Jorge Guillén Ferrer

ACOUSTICS
Raimundo Bambó Naya

FIRE STRATEGY
Diego Abril

SUSTAINABILITY
Jorge Guillén Ferrer

CAD
Sergio Cubero Belenguer

SITE SUPERVISION
María Pilar Hernando, Antonio Lorén Collado, José Angel Ruiz Gonzalez

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Diana López Martínez

PROJECT EXECUTION MANAGEMENT
Ana Villacampa

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
José Angel Ruiz Gonzalez

CATEGORY
Fire Station

LOCATION
Zaragoza, Spain

YEAR
2018

Text description provided by architect.

Fire Station No. 4, Avda de Zaragoza in the Casetas neighborhood, is located on a publicly owned plot next to the Casetas municipal swimming pools, in a well-connected area, which allows speedy emergency exits.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

The site in which the designed building is located has a rectangular geometry, 70 meters wide by an average of 115 longitudinal meters. Its total area is 8,000 m².

On the site, an L-shaped building with a total area of 1,245 m² has been built, of which 523 correspond to the vehicle garage, and 722 m² are for office use and living quarters.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

The Plot is located at the western end of the Casetas urban neighborhood in Zaragoza and has a depression of approximately 1 meter below the grade of the main access road.

It occupies a non-dominant position, in a depressed area destined for neighborhood amenities. The building responds to this circumstance with a towering height volume.

The Tower is crowned with a telecommunications antenna that guarantees the efficiency and independence of the emergency service.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

Working 24 hours a day, this facility will attend emergency situations that may occur in area 4, which includes the neighborhoods of Casetas, Garrapinillos, Monzalbarba and Alfocea, as well as the surrounding municipalities, Utebo, Torres de Berrellén or Sobradiel, among others.

The Needs Program required service spaces, bedrooms, toilets and changing rooms, which were related to the main spaces intended for the administrative management of the station, materials storage, and the storage and parking of emergency vehicles.

This program was complemented by a gym and a dining room that had to be located on the ground floor, as well as an outdoor space for parking and the circulation of heavy vehicles, which allowed the correct access and exit of emergency vehicles.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

An overhead telecommunications antenna and emergency generator along with the facility’s specific installations, completed the needs program.

The Building is made up of three volumes of different heights, which allow different uses depending on their typology.

Each one has different accesses for pedestrians or for vehicles and they are interconnected through the courtyard and the Tower staircase.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

Volumetrically, the building can be explained as a plinth that gathers all the circulations and services, on which two volumes rest. The volume of the Tower and the volume of the garage that manages emergency vehicles.

Most of the building is developed on the ground floor, where the different spaces integrated into an impression of unity. The materials of the facade harmonize the whole, creating a volumetric game in which the different uses are combined.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

The distribution of spaces and dimensioning of uses responds to functional criteria and conditions in which the operations of the Fire Brigade and the requirements of the Fire Rescue and Civil Protection Service draw an orderly plan around a central space that provides natural light and ventilation.

This central area is made up of a courtyard and a gymnasium that materialize in a continuous space that acts as the real lung of the building.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

This new amenity is developed mainly on the ground floor, housing the different living quarters, changing rooms, communication center, bedrooms, gym, etc.

On the upper floors and on the roof, there are small rooms for installations and a warehouse that configure a tower and which completes the complex as an iconic element that integrates the communications antenna.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

The Tower houses all the infrastructures and installations of the center, so that the rest of the building's roof is free of any type of installation, being conceived as the fifth façade of the project.

The Garage as a container for vehicles, joins the service spaces and other uses through a courtyard that articulates and orders the building. It opens onto the maneuvering yard, in connection with the Avenida de Zaragoza roundabout, from which there is quick accessibility to the Casetas neighborhood and the adjacent industrial areas.

The Courtyard is located in a central position, on the ground floor and acts as an articulating piece, a space that allows us to understand the operation of the building as a whole.

Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera
Fire Station No. 4
© Iñaki Bergera

Circulation spaces develop around the courtyard, constantly causing the relationship between infrastructure spaces, service spaces and vehicle parking bays, with emergency vehicles appearing as the backdrop for gym activities and administrative rooms and control.


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Fire Station No. 4
Site plan
Fire Station No. 4
Ground floor plan
Fire Station No. 4
1st floor plan
Fire Station No. 4
2nd floor plan
Fire Station No. 4
Roof plan

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