This
imposing ultramodern design does resemble the headquarters of an evil
empire, but it's a fire station in Italy. Where I live, building
anything against a rock face is just asking to be crushed by falling
rock, and a glass building even more so, but this is a natural cliff
instead of a carved mountain. The building is in Margreid, in the Alto
Adige/Suedtirol region of northern Italy.
The design is from the firm Bergmeister Wolf.
The
architects were approached in 2010 to build a fire station in a cliff
of sheer rock. The reason such a challenging spot was chosen was to
conserve the small amount of arable land in the area. “The building
could have been placed on a normal lot,” explained the architects, “but
the community decided to build the fire station into the rock, saving
valuable land for use as agriculture.”
There are
caverns behind the rock face, which were enlarged and reinforced with
concrete for use by the fire department. You can
explore the site via Google Street View.
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