Fire Station X

COSMOS

Studio: Arch 405 Fall 2020

Professor: Marcel Erminy

Partner: Angel Gomez

Professor Erminy prompted us with the idea to build a hybrid firestation. With the introduction of Corona Virus we felt that there needs to be a shift in architecture. A building can no longer function for a single use. It needs to be able to be a building that can support a community during a global crisis. This is why we decided to have a community center attached to our firestation that can support our community in multiple different ways.

We were presented with two large site in the Bryan College Station area to choose to build on. Both sites are relatively huge. Our site that we chose in Bryan, connected to Texas A&M’s Rellis campus, is a traingular shape about 30.5 acres. Considering how much space is needed to be occupied we decided to create two seperate buildings that attach in the middle by a bridge. We were inspired to also use this land as part of our building. The landscape birms up to the building and the building slopes into the landscape. Working in a symbiotic relationship to blur the line between what is building and what is site.

Site Location

Rellis Campus

Texas A&M University

Bryan, TX

This site is next to Texas A&M’s Rellis campus, which is an area far off main campus. We chose this site because it’s proximity to the highway. Also, because there is a definite need for this portion of campus to have a fire station close by. Considering it is where all the labs, containg heavy machinery, are located.