FIRE STATION AND ROADSIDE INTERVENTION CENTRE
Usually located on separate sites, the project brings together a new fire station and a roadside intervention centre on the same plot. The main issue was to manage unity as much as singularity, the institutional aspect as much as the domestic, while ensuring efficiency and comfort of use for firefighters and road workers.
The two programmatic entities are linked by some shared uses but must also preserve their own specific functions without impacting on each other. This necessary distinction concerns the built spaces with controlled separation, but also the service courtyards, which have very different uses.
The building is set in the centre of the plot, with an operational side open to the East and a public side open to the West. To the north, there is the road workers’ courtyard and to the south the firefighters' training area.
This organisation into successive parallel strips on the North-South axis is continued in the design of the building. The garages form the extremities of the project, while the shared and administrative spaces are at the centre of the composition.
The metallic hue of the sandy-gold aluminium cladding emphasises Pornic's seaside feel, while adding a shine that clearly identifies the building as a distinct equipment in the commercial area.
The drawing of the east and west elevations is didactic with the main entrances and exits revealed by contrasting dark colour. This simplicity and unity of design mean that all the building's functions can be carried out in a single treatment, giving it the emblematic status of an institution.
