Guizhou Firestation / West-line studio

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  • Architects: West-line studio: Haobo Wei, Jingsong Xie
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  13890
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Architecture Team: Hongsen Kang, Minghua Ou, Ke Zhou
  • Structure Team: Yuanping Li, Dingping Fu, Xiaoqiang Yang
  • Equipment: Hongbo Shi
  • Design: Haobo Wei, Jingsong Xie
  • City: Gui'an New District
  • Country: China
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Guizhou Firestation / West-line studio - Windows
© Haobo Wei

Text description provided by the architects. The fire station is located at the very center of Guizhou Province, near its main city, Guiyang. The building grows in between two steep trapezoid-shaped picks, 30m high, facing Huayan Road, an important road artery.

Guizhou Firestation / West-line studio - Windows
© Haobo Wei

The building is designed following a trapezoidal shape, clearly visible in its sections, which carries on the shape of the mountain. It gradually grows creating an iconic slope, from which only few elements pump out: the training tower on the north corner and the white central hall. The design of this hall is deliberately different from the rest of the building, aiming to create a holy space, the so called 'Honor Hall'. A thick white and deep shadows characterize this high sharp space, used for ceremonies where to reward brave fire mans and to strengthen the spirit of the whole team.

Guizhou Firestation / West-line studio - Windows
© Haobo Wei
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The plan is quite complex, due to the morphological features of the site. The building is made by a succession of parallel bands to combine different programs and it is arranged on many levels.These are connected by outdoor corridors and boardwalk which, due to the mild temperatures, have been equipped with relax areas, reading rooms and sport equipment to encourage socialization.

Guizhou Firestation / West-line studio - Facade, Handrail
© Haobo Wei

As in the most typical style of West-line, a severe strong architecture always meets open courtyards, some more wide and open, where to exercise and practice group sports, others more quiet, with water features, to create different environments. The light also plays an important role giving different personalities to different spaces. While on the swimming pool or indoor sports playground we have a diffuse light, in the Honor Hall the light is 'measured' to highlight only few architectural elements and to create iconic shadows. Architects paid particular attention to the design of the staircase. Far from being only passages or connection between different floors, these cores have long cantilevered areas and their own lighting system.

Guizhou Firestation / West-line studio - Windows
© Haobo Wei

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Address:Gui'an New District, Guizhou Province, China

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Cite: "Guizhou Firestation / West-line studio" 19 Jun 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/873886/guizhou-firestation-west-line-studio> ISSN 0719-8884

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