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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

Frank Lloyd Wright FoundationFrank Lloyd Wright Foundation

1940 · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19931940
PlaceWeil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, GermanyScottsdale, Arizona, United States
Place contextWeil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, GermanyRepresentative site: Wyoming, Wyoming, United States
Climate16°C · 14.0h daylight · 20 km/h wind17°C · 13.7h daylight · 20 km/h wind · via Unity Chapel
FocusFire station121 works in corpus
Architects
  • Zaha Hadid
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Zaha Hadid Architects

Notable works

  • Unity Chapel
  • Rookery Building
  • Louis Sullivan Bungalow
  • Walter Gale House
Typologies
  • fire station
  • deconstructivism
  • industrial building
  • chapel
  • sacred space
  • office
  • civic building
  • building
  • house
  • landscape
  • education
Materials
  • concrete
  • steel
  • timber
  • plaster
  • brick
  • stone
  • concrete
  • glass
  • copper
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete

Concrete, Steel, and Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Brick
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible40 of 40 recorded works are publicly accessible
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