Fire Station 6 is a 12,000 sf replacement for an existing fire station, targeted to achieve LEED Platinum, city goals for integrated Stormwater Management (iSWM) and the 2030 Challenge for carbon neutrality.

While Fire Station 6 will not often be visited by the public, it houses some of our most revered public servants. DSGN assessed what would provide the most comfort and quiet for the first reponders’s sleeping quarters, the best functional flow of personnel to gathering areas and equipment, and the most efficient way to get fire rescue vehicles in and out of the station.

The result is the inclusion of drive-through apparatus bays that allow emergency vehicles to flow in and out of the station with ease. A private courtyard with grilling and dining facilities is nestled among separate sleeping and office wings of the station, improving the quality of life of firefighters awaiting the next call.

Apparatus are featured in a glass “jewel box” that glows in a display of civic pride. The landscape incorporates native plants and flows to an adjacent park, as well as to the soon-to-be-developed S.M. Wright Boulevard.