This facility received the Satellite Notable Award in the 2021 Firehouse Station Design Awards. Find the full list of winners here.
Fire Station No. 1 provides four 100-foot-long drive-through apparatus bays and four-fold bay doors. The doors reduce maintenance, open more quickly than alternatives and reduce accidents.
Special attention was given to the design of the decontamination spaces and processes. They allow emergency response personnel who return from a contaminated event the capability to clean themselves on the far side of the bay, transition and then further clean through an air-lock transition zone that’s between the bays and the living area.
The station’s dramatic sloped roof opens up to face the nearby raised interstate, to make a visual impression on the larger community, which is an important element to the fire department.
The station provides 16 sleeping rooms, four offices, a secure entry lobby and a publicly accessible classroom. A large exercise room on the second floor is on the opposite side of the bays from the sleeping areas, for noise separation.
Lockers are placed in common interior hallway space to ensure that sleeping isn’t interrupted at shift changes and to allow dormitories to be placed on exterior walls to access natural daylight. Sleeping quarters are provided with a reading accent light, a built-in nightstand and bedding storage.
The kitchen provides bar seating, dual sinks (deep and accessible) and a high ceiling that has a reveal around the perimeter to accentuate the open feel of the living space. The facility site is provided with access-controlled secure fencing, a full-building natural-gas standby generator and the infrastructure for a planned fuel station.
Low-maintenance landscaping is utilized along with accent pavers.
The apparatus bays are equipped with a source-capture exhaust removal system, which is part of a comprehensive and NFPA-compliant reduction design.
Architect/Firm Name: Martinez Architects
