Miralles Tagliabue EMBT Wins Competition to Design Metro Station in Paris

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Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT) and Bordas+Peiro have been announced as winner among five proposals of a two-stage competition to design the future Clichy - Montfermeil metro station in Paris. The competition, organized by the Société du Grand París, is part of the ambitious Grand Paris Express project which seeks to modernize the existing transport network and create an automatic metro that will connect new neighborhoods to the city.

In addition to the station's design, EMBT’s proposal will provide a new public square for the renewed neighborhood of Clichy-sous-bois that will serve as a symbol of change following the violent riots of 2005. “We want to transform this grey and abandoned area into a vivid and colorful plaza, that will inspire joy and optimism,” stated EMBT. 

More about the winning design, after the break.

“Our approach is looking for the maximum integration of the metro station’s access into the urban context. The access is made through a slow slope with stairs that invites the people coming out of the station to participate on the square. A pergola-roof is covering the entrance, the installations and the building of the station, the bicycle parking and continues on an important part of the square, protecting an area dedicated in the future to a periodical market (organized on Wednesday and Friday).”

“The idea was to give a new identity to this place, with a glance to the origins of many of his inhabitants. We would like to transform this grey and abandoned place into a vivid and colorful square, which inspires joy and optimism. This is why we based the motives of the pavement, the shapes and the colors of the roof on the tissues, decorative motives and colors from Africa.”

Once entering the Metro Station, circulation is established within a single space illuminated by natural light. The character of this space is given by the panels that cover the organic shape of the void, the same as the panels of the outside pergola.

By 2030, the Grand Paris Express project is expected to serve two million passengers daily, adding 205 new miles of track and 72 new stations that will connect to three airports and France's high-speed rail (TGV). Elizabeth de Portzamparc (AECDP) has already been awarded the commission for the Bourget RER station. A winner of the Saint-Denis Pleyel station will be announced late October.

• Competition

  Clichy – Montfermeil Metro Station Competition

• Award

  First Prize

• Architects

  EMBT, bordas+peiro

• Location

  Clichy-sous-Bois, France

• Project Directors

  Elena Nedelcu, Karl Unglaub (Miralles Tagliabue EMBT)

• Design Team

  Gaia Cella, Marzia Faranda, Ana Fernández, Gaspar Canepa, Arturo Mc Clean, Gabriela Cruz, Almudena Rodríguez, Mireia García, Arantxa Picard, Shalini Moodley, Zhao Zhuoran, Yuliya Yudchenko, Yilun Wu, Dion Corbett, Alessandra Magnetti, Thomas Hostache, Silvia Calabresi. Stefan Geenen, Pedro del Corral, Ilaria Egidi, Anna Marcassoli, Ana Maria Manteigas, Flavie Caroukis

• Economist

  Bureau Michel Forgues

• Acoustic

  AVLS

• Lighting Design

  Dumas Lumiere, Marc Dumas

• Fire Security

  Casso & Associes

• Energy Consultant

  Arbor & Sens

• Sociologist

  Acadie

• Infographics

  PLAY-TIME Architectonic Image

• Artist

  Jorge Rodríguez Gerada

• Area

  4911.0 sqm

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Enric Miralles - Benedetta Tagliabue | EMBT

• Competition

  Clichy – Montfermeil Metro Station Competition

• Award

  First Prize

• Location

  Clichy-sous-Bois, France

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Enric Miralles - Benedetta Tagliabue | EMBT

• Area

  4911.0 m2