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Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany
Vitra Fire Station

1993 · Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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First construction by architect Zaha Hadid, in Weil am Rhein, Germany

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Vitra Fire Station

Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · City-level coordinates only

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Vitra Fire Station

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First construction by architect Zaha Hadid, in Weil am Rhein, Germany

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Vitra Fire StationVitra Fire Station

1993 · Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1993Unrecorded
PlaceWeil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, GermanyDoha, Qatar
Place contextWeil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, GermanyRepresentative site: St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
Climate12°C · 14.0h daylight · 17 km/h wind26°C · 13.5h daylight · 25 km/h wind · via Saint Louis Art Museum
FocusFire station13 works in corpus
Architects
  • Zaha Hadid
  • David Chipperfield
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Zaha Hadid Architects

Notable works

  • Saint Louis Art Museum
  • Foundation E. G. Bührle
  • 1 Cobham Mews Studios
  • Ciutat de la Justícia de Barcelona i l'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Typologies
  • fire station
  • deconstructivism
  • industrial building
  • museum
  • landscape
  • office
  • building
  • house
  • gallery
  • hospitality
  • hotels
Materials
  • concrete
  • stone
  • glass
Carbon signals

Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete

Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Glass
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
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