Casa de los Bomberos

Ibaiondo, Bilbo, Spain

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Casa de los Bomberos

Ibaiondo, Bilbo, Spain

Firm

Coll-Barreu Arquitectos

Type

Government + Health › Fire/Police/Military

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2012

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET

$10M - 50M

Photos

Juan Rodríguez (9), Juan Rodríguez (3), Aleix Bagué (1)

El edificio acoge los servicios de Protección Civil de un área metropolitana de un millón de habitantes.
Desde el solar es visible la densa longitud urbana de Bilbao, apretada en las márgenes angostas y profundas del Nervión. También es visible la topografía verde y vertical de las paredes que circunscriben la ciudad y la comprimen contra la ría.
Un vacío central longitudinal, del tamaño de la mitad del edificio, se vuelca hacia el valle, para dejar entrar a las colinas cercanas, la ciudad de abajo y de enfrente, los montes de la margen opuesta y el propio aire húmedo de Vizcaya, que se funden en una continuidad casi total, como si fueran una misma materia.
Como los viejos edificios de bomberos, el edificio asume su presencia pública hacia un área urbana nueva y extensa.
Persiste en los dos edificios conectados una referencia a las construcciones industriales, aquellos edificios-máquina o decantadores de procesos que transformaron la historia de la ciudad. y pautaron la vida de sus gentes.
Probablemente, los programas de la Casa de los Policías y la Casa de los Bomberos podrían ser intercambiables a través de su cordón elevado.

The building accommodates the central Fire Department for a one million people urban area.
From the site dense urban length is visible, squeezed on the narrow and deep banks of the river. Also visible is the green landscape, with water and vertical slopes that confine the city and compress it against the estuary.
The rainy atmosphere seems to lie dormant on the site. The land, the nearby hills, the city in front and below, the mountains from the opposite bank and even the moist air come together in an almost complete continuity, as if they were the same subject.
The inner areas of the Firemen House are emptied towards the valley.
Like the old fire stations, the building takes its public presence towards a new and large urban square.
In these buildings, there is still a reference to some industrial constructions, those building-machines or process decanters that have transformed the history of the city and set off the lives of its people.
Probably, both houses –policemen house and firemen house- could be not only metaphorically interchangeable through their high cord.

Consultants

NB35 (structures)

Indotec (mechanical and electrical)

COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS (Facade)

COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS Juan Ángel Aketxe (Quantity Surveyor)

Model
Luis Montiel

Photographs
COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS
Aleix Bagué
Juan Rodríguez

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Casa de los Bomberos

Ibaiondo, Bilbo, Spain

Casa de los Bomberos

Ibaiondo, Bilbo, Spain

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