The Big Roof 소방서 by Chuan-Chih Chang, Joe Lin and Yeling Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 철상 in 건축, 건물 및 구조물 디자인 Competition Category.
철건축· 2023
The Big Roof 소방서
by Chuan-Chih Chang, Joe Lin and Yeling Chen
Client: KeeLung City Govenrment
A' Design Award 철상 Winner in 건축 Category
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About The Big Roof 소방서
빅 루프(The Big Roof)는 산이 많고 비가 잦은 도시인 대만 지룽에 위치한 소방서이다. 이 디자인은 지역의 산지 주택 양식을 차용하여, 건물이 랜드마크로 인식되면서도 지형에 자연스럽게 어우러지도록 했다. 크게 경사진 지붕은 산의 표면 위에 새로운 켜를 형성한다. 발코니와 개구부는 경관과 건축물 사이에 그늘진 완충 공간을 만들어낸다. 이러한 공간은 깊이감을 더하고, 여름철 직사광선을 줄이며 자연 환기를 가능하게 한다. 소방서 옆으로 난 경관 산책로는 공원과 주변 자연 경관으로 이어진다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 철상
The Big Roof 소방서, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 철상 수상작으로, 잘 디자인된 창작물에 기대되는 전문적·산업적 요건을 충족하는 좋은 디자인에 수여되는 권위 있는 인정입니다. 철상 수상작은 창작자의 뛰어난 기술, 높은 전문성, 전문가다운 이해, 창의적 역량을 보여 줍니다. The Big Roof 소방서, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 창작물로서 실용적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 철상 수상 디자인은 업계 모범 사례를 통합하며 노하우와 재능으로 연결된 유능한 기술적 특성을 갖추고 있습니다. The Big Roof 소방서, 이 작품은 철저함으로 존중받으며 삶의 질을 개선하여 세상을 더 나은 곳으로 만들도록 디자인되었습니다.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Fire station is a landmark and yet still blending into the environment. The project is located at Keelung, Taiwan, a mountainous and rainy city. It is crucial to design the interface of the urban context and the building which connects visual guidance and natural shades for rain or sun. People can take the scenic path right by the fire station to access the park, the east bridge, the natural landscape. It is a statement of the fire station being part of local residents' lives.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Floors: 4F / Site Area: 1780 m2 / Floor Print Area: 780 m2 / Total Floor Area: 2045 m2 / Height: 14.45 m / Construction Fee: 3,000,000 euro
- Tags
- big roof, fire station, architecture, taiwan
- Production Technology
- Because of the local humid weather and limited budget, the fire station itself is expected to be easy to construct and maintain. The excavation strategy for mountain soil is very economy efficient, and use raw concrete formboard and self-compacting concrete for main structure and exterior walls. Earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, so we avoid to use stone panel or tiles, to prevent its damaging caused by earthquakes. Mineral painting on the big slope roof top also helps as the waterproofed layer.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult challenge of this project is the local mountain terrain and the project is located on a 45degree slope terrain. We need to think about how to construct at a steep terrain and also how to pour concrete when the local weather is often humid all year long. Therefore, during the design process, architects highly participate at the pre-construction meetings and also discuss with contractors about construction methods that helps to complete the project under limited budget.
- Research
- For architectures like police and fire stations, are usually designed as a majestic building in image or form wise in Asian societies. Taiwan government also tries to re-connect people and public institutions to improve public services. So during design process, architects try to design these public institutions based on regionalism and avoid the majestic image. So the design concept is to adapt “mountain house” style at this area and into our main building elements to the landscape and climate.
- Inspiration
- The concept is to adapt an indigenous building style “mountain house” in Taiwan, which have taken into the main building elements to the landscape and climate. The big sloping roof is a new layer of the mountain skin. The balconies and openings form unique space in-between the landscape and building and also create additional depth in in the summer to avoid sunlight but still allows natural ventilation, it also allow people doing multiple activities doing in and out the new mountain skin.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2017, and finished in March, 2021, located in Keelung city, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- At Asia cities that are similar to Taiwan’s, firefighters usually need to cover double amount of citizen’s safety than western countries. So when designing a fire station, architects not only need to design an efficient office, but also a good living residence. Because we believe with good living spaces, it can benefit both life and work quality. For this project, various balconies and openings allow great views from indoor to outdoor which offer great work and live spaces for firefighters.
- Patents
- For copyrights: Yen Partnership Architects + BBC Architects
- Team Members
- Yen Partnership Architects: Joe Lin, Yenling Chen
BBC Architects: ChuanChih Chang - Image Credits
- photo: OS Studio
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