Maisons-Alfort / Alfortville, France
2025
Grand Paris Express
Vert de Maisons station
The station serving the Grand Paris Express network opens onto a square bordered by shops in the wake of Maisons-Alfort and Alfortville.
Client
Maîtrise d’œuvre
General contractor
Program
Area
Mission
Planning
Client
Société du Grand Paris
Maîtrise d’œuvre
SYSTRA : mandataire
General contractor
Systra
Gare du GPE
Program
6 800 m²
Grand Paris Express network station
Area
6,800 m²
Mission
Architecture, urban planning, design, signage system
2025
Planning
Completion due
2025
It is surmounted by a new tertiary ensemble and connected to the RER C. The tertiary property consists of two parallel elongated buildings. They engage in a dialogue with the space opposite them: one, in brick, echoes the architecture of the pre-1950s low-rental housing estate, while the other, aligned with the railway tracks, unrolls a cinematic, stratified façade of glass and metal which riffs on the idea of movement and speed. One expresses the project’s anchorage, the other its new dynamic.
The buried part of the station is a vast, deep cavity whose bore increases with depth. It has been treated like a limestone quarry by way of evoking the historic activity of Maisons-Alfort, where stones were once extracted for many Paris monuments. Between the station’s “fronts”, “roofs” and “piers”, made of reconstituted stone, numerous escalators in steel and glass facilitate the public’s vertical movement. For passengers, their descent towards the depths or ascension towards the surface becomes a real spatial and aesthetic experience within a unique Piranesian space.
As a whole, these architectural and urban systems provide passengers, on the daily journeys they make, or sometimes endure, with something fresh and attractive.
The buried part of the station is a vast, deep cavity whose bore increases with depth. It has been treated like a limestone quarry by way of evoking the historic activity of Maisons-Alfort, where stones were once extracted for many Paris monuments. Between the station’s “fronts”, “roofs” and “piers”, made of reconstituted stone, numerous escalators in steel and glass facilitate the public’s vertical movement. For passengers, their descent towards the depths or ascension towards the surface becomes a real spatial and aesthetic experience within a unique Piranesian space.
As a whole, these architectural and urban systems provide passengers, on the daily journeys they make, or sometimes endure, with something fresh and attractive.
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