Qian'nan Fire Station 消防站 by Haobo Wei and Jingsong Xie

Qian'nan Fire Station 消防站 by Haobo Wei and Jingsong Xie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 建築、樓宇及結構設計 Competition Category.

鐵建築· 2022

Qian'nan Fire Station 消防站

by Haobo Wei and Jingsong Xie

Client: Westline Studio

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Qian'nan Fire Station 消防站

黔南消防站係一座位於中國貴州喀斯特山峰地區嘅消防救援建築。設計順應基地地形，三面環山而建。兩套秩序網格將平面組織成單元組群，形成連續嘅庭院空間，令人聯想起當地嘅傳統聚落形態。辦公區、訓練區同後勤空間結合喺同一建築群入面。紅色劈磚同白色石材彰顯消防救援嘅專業特質，天窗設計則將日光引入室內。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Qian'nan Fire Station 消防站是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Qian'nan Fire Station 消防站將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Qian'nan Fire Station 消防站因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The site is surrounded by hills on three sides and gently sloping towards a small river, with a stone bridge connecting the site to the city road. The design is based on the topography of the site and establishes two grids of site order, organising the space in the same way as the local settlement space, i.e. forming continuous courtyards in groups of units, transforming the residential space into an urban public space, maintaining the character of the local place and establishing a public courtyard space. The red and white materials show the professional character of fire and rescue, and the azalea, symbolising the blooming of the mountains, praises the honour of the profession.
Dimensions & Packaging: Area surface: 96611.35 sqm
Building surface: 27728.58 sqm
Building max height: 23 m
Tags: West-line studio, Fire and rescue, Professional honours, Red and white, Continuous courtyard, Skylight, Cluster, Unit function group
Production Technology: Concrete frame construction，
Red split brick: Matte, Dark red tones, Specification220*100*20
White flexible stone: Specification900*450，For large white walls
White exterior paint: for white lines.
White frosted insulating glass: mainly used in partial facade windows and skylights.
Design Challenge: The traditional way of building settlements is a wise response to the complex mountain environment, the core of which is the strategy of unit formation. How to combine the modern functional grouping of firefighting with the unit-formation strategy of the settlement to create a modern functional settlement with a local character is a study with place significance. Not only does this design give a romantic poetic symbolism to the occupation.
Research: The "Western Front Studio" has been focusing on the basic working model - geopolitical order/community model/spirit of place/composite construction. It has been established to facilitate the maintenance of the original state of geographical space and the stable expression of emotions. It even contributes to the realisation of a structure where order of place and spirit of place co-exist in the context of contemporary universal society, thus effectively preserving the humanity of the rural habitat and seeking ways to reconstruct the public life of rural society in the context of a dualistic social structure (universality + proximity). The architects have combined the traditional settlement with the order of place in the mountains to create a new communal settlement, while establishing the basic facilities for firefighting and rescue and giving it a noble professional symbolism.
Inspiration: The project is located in a mountainous area of karstic peaks, where there are many traditional settlements of ancient aquatic communities. The design has been inspired by the settlements: transforming the traditional settlement habitat into a public space with an urban function, maintaining the local identity and creating a lively modern space, the design defines a modern 'settlement' group space with a fire and rescue professional identity.
Project Duration: Design. june 2016 - october 2016
Location: Guiyang Guizhou Province, China
Construction. March 2018 - May 2020
Location: Datang County, Qiannan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China
Operation Flow: The building's core function is firefighting and rescue, with offices, training, training and logistics forming an occupational complex. The continuous open courtyard and the functional organisation of the clusters provide the atmosphere of a local settlement. The internal spaces create a vivid simplicity with light from the patio skylights, while the external red leaps and horizontal sprawl convey the poetic intent of blooming flowers.
Patents: West-line Studio
Team Members: Chief Architect: Haobo Wei,Jingson Xie
Design Team
Architectural design:Yudan Luo,minghua Ou,bing Liu
Landscape design:minghua Ou
Interior Design:Yudan Luo,bing Liu
Image Credits: West-line Studio Haobo Wei Jingsong Xie