Our site locates in Greenpoint at Brooklyn, New York. It has NYC’s typical “grid” urban layout and hesitates many industrial elements from the old time. Because of the importance of the fire station, I decided to distinguish it from the existing structures yet still echoes to the environment. The best solution came out of my mind is circle. It will help to let the program emanate from the center of the site towards the whole district. Due to the variety of program, multiple concentric circles are used. Structure wise, all these circles can be used as bearing walls; trusses, as the radius, can be used to adjust the size of each function area in a very organized way. Landscape wise, concentric circles can expand smoothly from the buildings to cover the oversized site, the radius and circles form up a net of pedestrian paths leading people to the museum and deck along the river.

There are two main buildings: The larger one is a two storage building. On the south side of the first floor lays the public lobby which opens up to the direction of the museum. The echo between the two programs can attract more people to the public garden between them.  At the north end locates the educational space and administration area which is connected to the apparatus bay. Residential area is on the second floor of this building, a clear corridor lays around the courtyard in the center of the building.  The courtyard will be used to recycle the rainwater.

Between the two buildings is a corridor that connects the exterior and interior. It leads the visitor going from educational space into apparatus bay which is the other cylinder building. Since there is an obvious height difference between the buildings, terraces are built from the roof of public and residential building to the roof apparatus bay. Greening will be planted and the whole space will be used as a roof garden.

Moreover, curved trusses will be used in reaction of the geometry of the program. The space between the roof and trusses can become a clear story for the natural ventilation.