Vitra Fire Station

In 1993, the Vitra Campus Fire Station by Zaha Hadid was finally completed. After a fire in 1981 on the campus, Vitra wanted to avoid any future fires from occurring on the campus. Hadid wanted to find the relationship between space and form, and thus did many studies and paintings of the fire house throughout the design project.

She wanted to use the building to join the agricultural landscape and surroundings to the artificiality of the Vitra Campus.

In my cuttings, I wanted to show how the building protruded from the landscape as if it was a continuous part of it. I think using a cutter in a 2D manner really helps in communicating this concept. I analyzed the lines of the building and figured out how to flatten them. The hardest part was figuring out how to get the streamline and dynamism of the building into a paper model.

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