Wender Police Station / Studiobase Architects
Architect: Studiobase Architects | Ming-Wei Huang
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Project team: Hao-Min Hsu, Nelson Lin, Chao-Yu Chen,Yin-Yin Cheng, Chien-Nun Sun, Chih-Jen Wang, Can Ho
Site area: 3,270 sqm
Total floor area: 2,943 sqm
Budget: USD $1.41 million
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Wei-Ming Yuan, Jeffrey Hsu
A Dislocated Spiral
Police Station is never recognized as a legitimate building type, yet it has been built everywhere. Our task of W Police Station is to create a distinct form for this everyday institution, also to respond to its functional interior and perplexed urban environment.
site plan
Site
The site for W Police Station lies in the heart of Taipei’s new Technology Park. Located at the junction of two heavily trafficked arteries, the W Police Station poses like a stone standing in torrents. The sculptural and dynamic form results largely from set-back regulations, thus the hovering part at the end of spiral volume creates a shady resting corner for pedestrian.
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Strategy
The donut-like building plans are read as a parti which we call “core & loop”. On the ground floor, the central core is occupied by armory/equipment room and superintendents’ offices, surrounded by a wide loop of open working areas. On the second floor, the core turns into a courtyard, surrounded by a loop of officers’ bedrooms. The courtyard does not only serve the bedrooms as a common green, the lawn also cools down the armory below. The opening gap between the courtyard and the corridor allows stairs to penetrate, also improves the interior ventilation and illumination.
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- site plan
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- ground floor plan
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- second floor plan
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- section 02
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front facade in the main image looks like a demented face.
other than that its a pretty cool building i think
Cool!!! A leap forward.
Never thought of a police station like this could happen in taiwan.
I love it, must go there and take a look sometime.
The facades are very cool, specially the windows… the central courtyard is a welcome feature I bet, for the officers working there. I like how they used large windows to the inside. Nice project.
the lamborghini must be a impounded car…
or some cop on the take! lol
the building is nice though.
the courtyard is nice… looks like a cage for dangerous dogs.
the planning imposition is appreciated intelligence … great job
11:18 AM Feb 19th
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