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A grayscale perspective drawing of the fire station with a basketball court in the front.
Teodora Velkova
Student Gallery M.Arch

The Fire Station

414 Major Building Design
2019

From Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Fire Station #4 to Zaha Hadid’s Vitra Fire Station, the Fire Station has long been a public building where architectural issues are expressed and realized at a modest size. The culminating studio of the core curriculum at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, this studio is structured around four central issues: (1) Precedent / Analysis / Urban Network, (2) Massing / Organization, (3) Civic Disposition, and (4) Representation / Argument. These issues have their own mini-reviews throughout the quarter to foster cross-studio discussions. As such, the reviews act as a forum of shared issues to foreground joint discussions. To ensure discussions remain focused, students are selected from each section to represent the discussion of each review. While these issues have a defined place in the progression of the course, they should be seen as building over the course of the quarter.

Related Faculty
 Jason Payne, Narineh Mirzaeian, Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Andrew Kovacs
Related topics
 Building Typologies
a site plan drawing of the Fire Station n one-sixteenth of an inch scale
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two section drawings of the Fire Station in one-eighth of an inch scale.
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A circulation diagram in one-sixteenth f an inch scale with red lines from ifferent directions to show movements.
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a site plan drawing not drawn to scale
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illustrated perspective drawing
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illustrated perspective drawing
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illustrated perspective drawings
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three diagrams showing circulation; from top to bottom: the circulation lines in red being segregated from the building and vehicles factors; the circulation lines in red in interaction with the vehicles and the interior of the building, the circulation lines in red in interaction with the building’s voids
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Exploded axonometric diagram showing four distinct forms that combine to form the aggregate.
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Axonometric wireframe diagram showing ground floor plan and circulation.
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  2. Teodora Velkova.
  3. Teodora Velkova
  4. Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
  5. Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
  6. Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
  7. Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
  8. Martha Kriley
  9. Martha Kriley
  10. Martha Kriley
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