Fire Station Puurs
Puurs, Belgium
- Architects
- Compagnie O. Architects
- Location
- Kleine Amer, 2870 Puurs, Belgium
- Year
- 2011
The design of the fire station in Puurs starts from a pure functionality of the building on the one hand, a machine à travailler, and from a unique setting on the other.
The requirement of a large central hall (the remise), on both sides lined with turn-out zones, a relatively high hose drying tower, the extensibility of the fire station with sleeping areas, combined with a complex internal organization, led the design in a certain direction: a building with a footprint of 72 by 35 meters with a distinct architectural personality. The hose drying tower, combined with a practicing tower, acts as a vertical entity and vertically and serves as a billboard for the fire department and the city of Puurs. On both sides the fire station is given meter wide porches so that the building is literally framed in the landscape.
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