V.C.F.P.D. Fire Station #28 in Piru, California consists of the remodeling of an existing fire station and a new addition consisting of dorm rooms, turnouts room, work room, laundry room and telecommunications room required to bring the facility up to current building codes.

The design concept for Fire Station #28 was inspired by the ubiquitous stacks of ORANGE CRATES in the sprawling orange groves surrounding the site. The crates are expressed as LIGHT MONITORS inserted into the roof of the existing station, washing natural light into the interior spaces.

The wall elements are conceived as the dismantling of the orange crates and the “RE-WRAPPING” of these elements around the various building forms as an ORDERING DEVICE.

The final gesture is the introduction of a CLOCK TOWER as a historic reference to the traditional HOSE DRYING TOWERS of older fire stations and as a new marker for the newly developed language of this fire station.