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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

MorphosisMorphosis

Pasadena, California, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1993Unrecorded
PlaceWeil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, GermanyPasadena, California, United States
Place contextWeil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, GermanyRepresentative site: New York, United States
Climate11°C · 13.9h daylight · 7 km/h wind10°C · 13.5h daylight · 22 km/h wind · via The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art / Morphosis Architects
FocusFire station7 works in corpus
Architects
  • Zaha Hadid
  • Thom Mayne
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Zaha Hadid Architects

Notable works

  • The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art / Morphosis Architects
  • Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse
  • 41 Cooper Square
  • Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics / Morphosis Architects
Typologies
  • fire station
  • deconstructivism
  • industrial building
  • offices
  • institutional buildings
  • dabas
  • educational
  • 3d modeling
  • house
  • civic building
  • gallery
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
  • aluminum
  • fabric
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete

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

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • 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.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
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