Located in the town of Millwood, NY about forty miles north of New York, the Millwood Fire Station is a new construction project commissioned to replace an existing station which was built in 1910.
Aside from updating the capacity for the building’s integrated technological capabilities, the new station had to maintain the programmatic capabilities of the current station which commonly hosts community functions and gatherings.
Sited on an inclined plot of land, the building is built into a steep rise on its south side. The building is composed of long bars with integrated two-story apparatus bay projecting perpendicularly away from the strong north-south axis. The building’s entry is a double height open atrium which provides a visual break through the long solid bar from the building. Anchored on the southern edge of the apparatus bay, the lobby acts as a programmatic filter for the fire station, enabling the necessary divisions between the publically used zones of the building and those designated for fire crew and officials.
The project was designed and completed under the direction of Mark DuBois and Deborah Fantera at the firm of Ohlhausen DuBois Architects.