Wender Police Station / Studiobase Architects

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Taipei City, Taiwan

Text description provided by the architects. 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.

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Site

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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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Address:Taipei City, Taiwan (ROC)

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Cite: "Wender Police Station / Studiobase Architects" 16 Sep 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/34900/wender-police-station-studiobase-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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