Spanish Fork Fire Station 62 was designed as a civic landmark for the City, located near the mouth of Highway 6, one of the busiest thoroughfares in Utah.  Having the largest geographic area in the state to respond to, Spanish Fork Fire Department relies on Station 62 to help cut response times in half.  The 14,700 sq. foot station serves to transition the previous on-call dispatch department to a full-time occupied facility, providing dorm rooms for (7) firefighters, a training room, exercise room, commercial kitchen, and dayroom. Additionally, a police office is located at the station to provide an auxiliary report space.

Spanish Fork City was founded around an agrarian economy.  Over the past 25 years many of the farmsteads have been replaced with the influx of a booming population and single family homes, but, few still remain.  Station 62 is designed to provide a civic nod to the history of the city, with the structure’s massing conceptually proposed as three interconnected agrarian outbuildings.  An Entry Silo anchors the civic corner and public entry to the building, while the center Firefighter Farmhouse forms the heart of the station.  On the East end of the facility sits the Apparatus Barn which, much like a grain storage barn, is pragmatically designed as a direct reflection of what it houses.  The construction is treated in an honest fashion, with much of the structural steel frame exposed at the interior and exterior with connection details left on display.

Station 62 incorporates a number of sustainable design strategies including passive daylighting, passive heating and cooling and a high performance envelope including glazing coated with ceramic frit to reduce solar heat gain.  The structure was oriented to maximize prevailing wind directions and southern passive heating while providing ample opportunity for northern daylighting to an exterior occupiable courtyard space.  The project is water wise with low flow plumbing fixtures and 100% of all surface runoff stormwater captured and directed into a bioswale stormwater filtration system. Close coordination on the part of the design team resulted in a fire station that performs over 30% more efficient than the Energy Star baseline median station.