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1993 · Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Vitra Fire Station image

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

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Field	Vitra Fire Station 1993 · Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1993	1919
Place	Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany	Representative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate	12°C · 13.9h daylight · 8 km/h wind	6°C · 14.2h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Fire station	9 works in corpus
Architects	Zaha Hadid	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Zaha Hadid Architects	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	fire station deconstructivism industrial building	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	concrete	glass
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
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.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.