Vitra fire station

zaha hadid celebrates 20 year anniversary of vitra fire station, her first major commission as well as the development of her practice and potential of architecture.

Zaha Hadid - Zaha Hadid Architects: Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany

Fire Station at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Zaha Hadid, 1993) www.vitra.com © Vitra

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Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid's Vitra fire station was one of her first built projects. Originally designed to be a working fire house station within the Vitra complex, this building is now used to exhibit Vitra's collection of iconic chairs. Hadid drew inspiration of the building from its surrounding environment. The linear element found on the main street leading to the Vitra factory as well as the factory itself gave birth to the concept being of a geometric, linear form. Hadid did not however…

The Vitra Fire Station, designed by Zaha Hadid, is characterized by the absence of any right angles and the use of sloping surfaces.

Vitra fire Station Zaha Hadid

Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany; © Christian Richters, via Architecture.com

(sobre Zaha Hadid) 1. É incontestável que a cultura tem necessidade dos seus ídolos, dos seus máximos pontos de referência. Numa sociedade inteiramente consciente, a cultura teria um lugar central, uma vez que é na cultura que se definem, que se pensam e repensam uma série de valores, de comportamentos e de ideias que não só orientam uma sociedade, como contêm sempre o embrião de novas orientações para a mesma sociedade, permitindo a evolução e a renovação. Evidentemente, nem nessa sociedade…

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Introduction Vitra’s name is associated with a new interpretation of architecture. Birsfelden its headquarters (Switzerland) and the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany) have buildings designed by some of the world’s most influential architects. The Fire Station was the first international design work of Zaha Hadid and demonstrates her technique of mixing polygons with […]

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Zaha Hadid; Vitra Fire Station, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 1993