studio 451: the temperature at which drawings burn
fahrenheit This projects sets the studio assignment in the world of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. In the novel, fire fighters are employed to burn books. After a series of exploratory projects, students were asked to design either a library, a firehouse, or both.
manea Dana Manea: coincidentia oppositorium

The idea of coexisting opposites surfaced multiple times in the novel Fahrenheit 451. The mechanical hound was characterized as a creature that “slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live” and the morphine or procaine in the dog’s needle was “honey full of poison wildness.” The very nature of the firehouse is opposite to what we think today of a firehouse. Its purpose is to ignite, not extinguish fire. Even fire has opposite meanings. Beatty sees it as a perpetual motion and a real beauty, something very rich that has a life of its own. Yet fire is also seen as “antibiotic, aesthetic, practical”, a tool in wait to be used. The firehouse presents opposite features too. In a place devoted to burning books. There is a huge wall with the typed lists of a million forbidden books, and the place that houses equipment for creating fire is always dully lit, with lots of dark corners and the few lighting fixtures existing seem to give green and blue light.
boyd Charles Boyd: Fire Station for Fahrenheit 451

Set inside Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, in a world in which fire fighters burn books, I designed a fire station.
The fictional setting forced us to abandon traditional building types, or at least re-examine their significance in a new setting that places no value on human life and revises history to reinforce the status quo.
Description: Fire Station to accommodate twelve fire starters, two fire trucks, and one mean mechanical dog.
boyd Brian Britton: Boyd: Library for Fahrenheit 451

Set inside Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, in a world in which fire fighters burn books, I designed a fire station.
The fictional setting forced us to abandon traditional building types, or at least re-examine their significance in a new setting that places no value on human life and revises history to reinforce the status quo.
Description: Fire Station to accommodate twelve fire starters, two fire trucks, and one mean mechanical dog.