Building: Vitra Fire Station
Location: Weil am Rhein, Germany
Project Year: 1991-1993
Completed in 1993, the Vitra fire station would be Hadid’s first
realized project of her career, which would introduce her name and style to an international audience. The Vitra fire station is Hadid’s showcased work that delves into the deconstructivist theoretical language that she developed through her paintings as a conceptual
mediator of finding spatial relationships and form.
- The fire station is a composition of concrete planes that bend, tilt, and break according to the conceptual dynamic forces that are connecting landscape and architecture.
- The interior of the fire station is just as complex formally and spatially as the exterior of the building. The series of layered walls are bent, tilted, and broken to accommodate for the functionality of the program that is sandwiched in between the walls. The second floor is slightly off balance with the ground floor, which creates a sense of spatial instability within. As the planes slide past one another and begin to manipulate according to program, visitors are subject to optical illusions that the angles and glimpses of color begin to create within.
Today, the fire house has been converted into a museum that showcases Vitra’s chair designs after the fire district lines had been redrawn.
Resource : Archdaily.com Photo: Wojtek Gurak
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