Fire Stations

(...) the little houses looked like houses and they even had windows; the fire stations reminded you of something - of fire stations actually, rather than exhibitionist fragments of late Corbu or correct manifestations of Mies (...) 1 *












1. In a later time they might look like an explosion in a Cubist sculpture exhibition: have you looked at Zaha Hadid's Fire Station while envisioning the regular guys who are going to inhabit it and work in it erectly? The heroic and original tradition lives on! *













Segundo a própria:

As one passes across the spaces of the firestation, one catches glimpses of the large red fire engines. (...) Similarly, the ritualised exercices of the firemen will be inscribed into the ground; a series of choreographic notations. The whole building is movement, frozen. It expresses the tension of being on the alert; and the potencial to explode at any moment.

* Thoughts About Evolving Teachers and Students, Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture, A View From the Drafting Room, Robert Venturi, The Mit Press

(Dixwell Fire Station)