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.

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Architects: West-line studio

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

Design: Haobo Wei, Jingsong Xie

Area: 13890.25 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Haobo Wei

Architecture Team: Hongsen Kang, Minghua Ou, Ke Zhou

Structure Team: Yuanping Li, Dingping Fu, Xiaoqiang Yang

Equipment: Hongbo Shi

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From the architect. 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.
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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 spir...