EMS Station 50
Dean/Wolf Architects
- Goethals Avenue & Parsons Boulevard, Jamaica, NY
- STATUS: Concept
- COMPLETED: Unknown
- SIZE: Unknown
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The "home base" for seven ambulances, EMS Station 50 will occupy an edge of the existing Queens Hospital campus facing Goethals Avenue. Ambulance crews will report to this station at the beginning and end of each shift as well as to be refueled and supplied.
The design responds to the complex site constraints and topography: a sidewalk that slopes in both directions and a utility tunnel that runs the length of the site. The building is a continuously sloping form that folds back onto itself, following the contours of the street, to achieve a residential scale facing the adjacent neighborhood. Skinned in aluminum and glass, the building acts as a truss/bridge in order to maximize the buildable area of the elongated site. The truss defines the programmatic divisions of the interior, providing the framework for the offices above the station facilities below.