This station received a Career 2 Notable Award in Firehouse's 2017 Station Design Awards. Find the full list of winners here.
The architects and design team worked closely with the City of North Augusta and the Public Safety Department to design a facility that will serve the community for 75 years or more—what Mayor Lark Jones likes to call a “good old-fashioned firehouse.”
Station #3 was designed to set an aesthetic standard for all new city public safety facilities and to blend into the neighborhood with brick and stone veneer, a hipped roofline and arched openings. It includes three double-loaded drive-through apparatus bays and support spaces, four bunk rooms, a kitchen, a dining room, a dayroom and an office. These core spaces were designed large enough to accommodate the addition of future bunk rooms along the rear corridor that leads to the apparatus bays.
The station is designed to be energy efficient and low maintenance, and serves as a public entry point to the city’s recently completed recreation greenway project.
Additionally, Station #3 includes a police office with separate entrance and restroom. It is a true first responder facility, designed with an emergency generator to provide 24/7 services.
The teams provided complete architectural, engineering and landscape architectural design services. More importantly, the meticulous design saved the City of North Augusta nearly $200,000 from the original budget. The city’s intention is that the station floor plan design will serve as a prototype design and will be the basis for upcoming station site selections and new stations. The next station design project is already underway, utilizing the same space layout with a very different exterior appearance for its intended locale.
Architects: Stewart-Cooper-Newell Architects and Johnson, Laschober & Associates P.C.
