Bomberos
Year
Location
Status
Co-authors
Area
2022
San Pedro Garza García, NL, México
Built
Adrián Flores, Carolina Segura, David de la Garza
370 m2
This building is located in an avenue that originally was a highway that led into Chipinque Park in the Sierra Madre Oriental. The street has now turned into a commercial zone with every building competing for attention and no consistent visual theme. The site for the project is located at the end of a linear park, and from this place there is a clear view toward “the M”, a landmark rock formation on the mountain range.
The project consists of two layers of stacked arcades, with the upper level rotated 45 degrees. Fashioned as a ziggurat it suggests a possible continuation of the structure into infinity. The bottom arcade with its orientation responds to an optimal street approach for the fire engines, for easy access to and from the station into the street. An important space of the lower arcade is the public vestibule that receives the path coming from the linear park and connects it to the commercial sidewalk that continues after the site.
The upper volume is rotated 45 degrees so that the load bearing arches rest on top of the lower level. This orientation provides a terrace and views towards the mountains and a north-facing private terrace for the sleeping quarters. Two solid blocks housing services are positioned to the east and west sides in order to protect the building from harsh sunlight, especially in the afternoon. One of these volumes houses a spiral staircase and sliding pole that connects both levels in the quadrant where the public vestibule is located.
The drying tower for the hoses is a tensegrity structure made of steel rods and cables that follows the idea of the fire station with each level of the structure rotated for structural purposes.