Belton Fire Station No. 2 - Kansas City Business Journal:

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million Players: Architect, ; ; engineers, Walter P , ; financier, ; contractor, ; landscape architect, The building houses a fire station andthe department’s headquarters as well as an emergency operations center and trainingv facilities. Special considerations: Movement was a consideration, said Michael principal of SFS Architecture. The designers had to understanrd how the public could get in and how they woulds move throughthe station.
Connecting the offices to the buildinv for ease of use while stillp giving them autonomy from the rest of the area also was Designers also easedthe firefighters’ movementr within the station by understandinv how they come in after a call and theidr needs as they come and go. Comfort features: “Firefighters spendc a third of their life attheses stations, and we try to make it work from a functionh as well as a human Christianer said. He brought in a lot of lighg to animate the living space and used easiltymaintainable materials, such as concrete because the station is used 24 hours a day.
The sleepinhg cubicles are separatedby gender, and in lieu of a communitty bathroom, there are individual lavatory and shower spaces to provide much-needed privacy. Shelter: The emergency operations centeer was built to stand upto 160-mile-an-hour winds to be a refuger as well as a resource centerf during an emergency.