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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Fire Depatment in Montblanc, France by Arriola & Fiol arquitectesSeptember 15th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Arriola & Fiol arquitectes The project is organized around a central hall where the fire trucks are parked. The rest of the program, that is, the sitting and dining room, kitchen and bedrooms in the second floor, are complementary to this main working room. This concept is carried out to the spatial volume of the fire station, where the roof of this central room is extended to the whole building and to its façades. The four doors for the cars, as big squared mouths opening at different directions, reinforce the movement of the building. The alignments of the building and its three dimensional volume refer to the dented line of the Montsant hills in the background.
From the beginning the building itself was understood more as a topographic accident in the landscape than a small nave in an industrial zone. Contact Arriola & Fiol arquitectes
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