Mexican Hat Fire Station

Mexican Hat, Utah

building Area

4,800 sf

Owner

San Juan County

This facility includes two fire truck bays, three maintenance bays, three sleeping rooms, offices, waiting room, multi-purpose room, shower/restroom, storage, pantry, and fire apparatus storage.

One challenge of this project was to make the building blend into the desert landscape so that it appears to have been there for years. With no natural vegetation on site, the only way to accomp­lish this goal was to mold the topography by arranging previously excavated rock to look like natural outcroppings. To achieve the correct color of the exterior block, a sample of the local earth was sent to the block manu­facturer. The gray block accent color was expected to take on the tone of the natural landscape color as it be­­came coated with wind-blown dust.

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