* 소방서 [ Luís Banazol ] Fire Station

기능은 형태를 만들고 형태는 공간을 구획한다.
유기적인 자연적인 형태와 도시적 형태에서 오는 대비는 강렬한
그림자를 야기한다. 우리는 그것을 단순함과 강함이라는 건축적 요소로 부른다.
포르투칼 건축가 '루이스 바나졸'의 소방서 컨셉안은 포스트 모던니즘을 대표하는
기능적 단순함에 충실한 조형미를 우리에게 이야기 한다.
상이한 기능들의 합집합과 교집합 그리고 이것들이 만들어 내는 공간의 볼륨은
소방서 내에서 필요한 공간들을 담는 동시에 불필요한 공간을 덜어냄으로써
더이상의 건축적 크리틱을 피해간다.
여기에 메탈과 콘크리트의 경쾌한 구조적 해석은 전체적인 디자인 컨셉의 흐름을 유지하며
소방서의 캐릭터를 아이콘화 한다.
대지와의 관계와 프로그램의 이해 그리고 공간에 대한 특성을 파악한다면
당신은 더이상 건축에 대하여 두려워 하지 않아도 된다.
그 이후에 벌어지는 것들은 당신 것이 아니기 때문이다.

reviewed by SJ

The design for the fire station in Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal by Luis Banazol arises from the dialectic of reflection, at the same time simple and strong, between the artificiality of the urban and the organic naturalness. As a concept of development, we tried to integrate the building with the involving, creating an element in sober, contemporary yet functional and appropriate to their function. More image and architects’ description after the break.

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This study was designed with the objective of alignment and articulation of different spaces and technical requirements pertaining to each function and functional space, in order to maximize the best “performance” and description of them. Any linkage between the technical and technological characteristics of the complex proved successful, both at the joint functional / programmatic as well as the exact location of the technical areas that safeguard the proper performance of all infrastructure and services.

The sizing of the various compartments took into account the ecommendations of the National Fire Service. The space requirements are a reflection on the one hand usage levels, and secondly the use efficiency, thus can not be considered as absolute, but as mere recommendations. The land, approximately 3790m2, has an irregular geometry with a small slope. The land directly abouts the west with the road, formal orientation of the building.

The building is characterized by a mixed structure, metal and concrete, making it more efficient at the construction level. The idea to share, wich we think was achieved, is an involved conjunct and part of the morphology of the local, featuring a lightweight form and detached from the soil in much of its implementation, thus making “access” to its inside / outside valences involved in a building with these characteristics.

It is essential to combine the conceptual image to an adequate functional program and properly articulated. For this to work there was the premise of solving access and circulation. The main entrance to the building will be made from the Industrial Park Road. The building will be organized on two floors + basement with interior gaps, as requested in the program.

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