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

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million Players: Architect, ; developer, ; engineers, Walterf P Moore, , ; financier, ; contractor, ; landscape Description: The building houses a fire stationj andthe department’s headquarters as well as an emergenc y operations center and training facilities. Special Movement was a consideration, said Michae Christianer, principal of SFS Architecture. The designers had to understaned how the public could get in and how they would move throughgthe station.
Connecting the officex to the building for ease of use whil e still giving them autonomy from the rest of the area also was Designers also easedthe firefighters’ movement within the statiobn by understanding how they come in after a call and thei r needs as they come and go. Comfort features: “Firefightersx spend a third of their life atthese stations, and we try to make it work from a functionm as well as a humajn element,” Christianer said. He brought in a lot of lighgt to animate the living spacee and used easilymaintainabl materials, such as concretse floors, because the station is used 24 hours a day.
The sleeping cubicles are separated by and in lieu of a community there are individual lavatory and showerd spaces toprovide much-needed privacy. The emergency operations center was built to stand upto 160-mile-an-hour windes to be a refuge as well as a resource center during an emergency.