# Tim McGinley Diploma 01 
# written on 19_01_05
# Statement of intent Selby fire station 

# TITLE [Design Philosophy]

# SUBTITLE[0] “process and colour”
Re use of the existing facilities to aid the phasing process, 
with primary construction work taking place on top of the 
existing fire truck bays, the project would develop a semi-
permanent phased look. The project will reveal visually the 
process that spawned it as well as the fire safety measures 
it has employed. Like a giant cutaway axonometric drawing. 
The main difference between this proposed scheme and current 
thinking comes from considering the station as an emergency 
cooling machine, therefore much of the design will allude to 
water whereas some sections of the station (maybe the rest 
area) will have allusions to the bravery and heroic nature of 
the fire service members, maybe a pixel image painted on the 
slats of the practice tower.
This will represent itself within the design in using a light 
blue colour for the structure as opposed to the norm of using 
red. The idea is that it might be possible to model the system 
with the idea of white blood cells, or glands. It is possible 
that in losing the colour red it and only adding it sparingly 
at the end it will be possible to explore the design more 
freely.

# SUBTITLE[1] “structure”
There is room for construction above the existing station as 
already discussed, one additional bay will be provided and 
the public reception retained however the northern part of 
the site will be replaced by a landscaped ramp up to the roof 
of the bays for quick access for the users. The structure of 
the new building will emerge from the earth ramp and be water 
filled to increase its fire resistance. The design of the 
structure will allude to pipes under pressure, the structure 
will be something like FOAs Yokohama Terminal after having 
some serious pulsating muscle Manga treatment. The steel 
structure will be triangulated and adaptive to the various 
phases of the proposal and also to the multiple states of the 
machine. A good point of this might be an open day as opposed 
to response to a major emergency. This situation could be 
colour coded changing from blue to red, perhaps lights 
projected onto the building. 

# SUBTITLE[2] “emergency response”
The most important idea of this proposed scheme is what a fire 
station is, The fire service is there to put out fires but also 
as a preventative. It is an fire service is an information and 
regulatory body. On top of this it is proposed that the new 
station be capable of responding to large emergencies in the 
form of a central organisational body. To aid in this it is 
proposed that the new station has its own helicopter, dedicated 
to multi disciplinary organisational response. Using the light 
blue colour scheme, as the representative of this new amalgamated 
emergency response.

# SUBTITLE[3] “information”
The stations primary function is to prevent fires. It will 
perform these tasks by promoting fire safety tips through various 
media outlets around the site and daubed across its skin 'in the 
form' of information. In this respect it is in a very good 
location as it has an extensive audience from the roads on either 
sides. Another important aspect of the site's relationship to the 
primary function of the building is that the sites surroundings 
are all flat so any tall points in the building can be seen from 
far around.