Addition to a Small International Style Fire Station

This project is an addition to an International Style fire substation.  The current use is a shoe store.  The original garage doors were replaced with storefront glazing. The addition is of a stock room and a small second floor apartment.  The apartment is on the northwest corner of the building and the solution was to provide a deep overhang and balcony to the west and a large industrial window to the north where there is a view of adjacent verdant residential back yards. The addition is meant to be consistent with the original building, but the programmatic requirements of a stock room and a dwelling unit are different enough from the original purpose of the building that they create an assembly of discrete objects with a common vocabulary.  Attention was paid to how the addition and the original building intersect and how the rear entry from the parking lot interfaces with the original building.

The design method was to work in a simple chipboard model.  Here is an aerial view; the addition is on the left:

 

Here is the view from the street, which faces south:

Here is the view from the southwest.  The apartment is on the second floor:

 Here is the completed building.  The addition is the part of the building to the left of the tree:

Here is the joint between the original building and the addition:

 Here is the northwest corner of the building showing the apartment's north facing industrial window and balcony: