![A grayscale perspective drawing of the fire station with a basketball court in the front.](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/331945543-1623280166/copy-of-hero-velkova-finalboards-3-1024x576-crop-50-50.jpg)
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](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/2440199883-1623280166/copy-of-velkova-finalboards-1-320x400-crop-50-50.jpg)
![two section drawings of the Fire Station in one-eighth of an inch scale.](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/1693636619-1623280166/copy-of-velkova-finalboards-5-576x320-crop-50-50.jpg)
![A circulation diagram in one-sixteenth f an inch scale with red lines from ifferent directions to show movements.](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/506628971-1623280166/copy-of-velkova-finalboards-7-320x240-crop-50-50.jpg)
![a site plan drawing not drawn to scale](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/731360575-1623280166/gancedogrieve-final-board-site-plan-120x120.jpg)
![illustrated perspective drawing](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/3073296484-1623280166/gancedogrieve-final-board-elevation1-216x120-crop-50-50.jpg)
![illustrated perspective drawing](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/4035883700-1623280166/gancedogrieve-final-board-elevation2-432x240-crop-50-50.jpg)
![illustrated perspective drawings](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/3158068520-1623280166/gancedogrieve-final-board-perspectives-320x320.jpg)
![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](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/802316078-1623280166/copy-of-kriley-finalboard2-240x240-crop-44-52.jpg)
![Exploded axonometric diagram showing four distinct forms that combine to form the aggregate.](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/313685662-1623280166/copy-of-kriley-finalboard3-240x240-crop-43-66.jpg)
![Axonometric wireframe diagram showing ground floor plan and circulation.](https://www.aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-fire-station/2649916222-1623280166/copy-of-kriley-finalboard5-320x320.jpg)
- Teodora Velkova
- Teodora Velkova.
- Teodora Velkova
- Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
- Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
- Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
- Sarah Grieve and Katie Gancedo
- Martha Kriley
- Martha Kriley
- Martha Kriley