ES/2025
Basque Country
PHOTOGRAPHER AND COLLABORATION
Lander Ibarretxe
PRODUCTIO SUPPORT
Gobierno Vasco
Bizkaiako Foru Aldundia
The City of Danger is a portrait of several firefighter training towers. The work proposes a reading of these spaces as fragments of a single latent city. A city made up of architectures of danger, where simulation and reality intertwine within the same landscape.
The façades of these buildings replicate those of any urban environment and share a common architectural logic: they are designed exclusively to simulate fires and emergency situations, offering a controlled setting where rescue techniques and responses to risk can be rehearsed.
While the brigades remain on standby, each day begins with a new exercise. These are places where the attempt to control the uncontrollable is endlessly repeated, where danger is reset daily as part of the training. At times, when a real emergency interrupts a drill, the fiction of the exercise collapses, reminding us of the presence of actual risk beyond their walls.
