Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station by Kengo Kuma & Associates

A new center of the city
Design: KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES
Location: France
Type: Architecture
Materials: Glass Curtain Wall
Tags: Paris
Category: Transportation Pubilc Architecture Metro Station

Kengo Kuma & Associates won the first prize for the competition “Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station” in Saint-Denis, France.

general view

The train station will be the first stone of a future global urban project in the site of Saint-Denis Pleyel. It will enable the site and the city to increase its metropolitan scale significantly. The project is designed as a unique opportunity to open up the district by connecting the two sides of the city over a huge railway network of the Parisian North station. The station becomes an extension of the public spaces on many levels. Multiple levels continue in spiral, so the station functions as a complex that brings in streets in vertical layer. Steel frames that evoke rail tracks are used in the curtain wall and many other parts of the structure, to emphasize the passage of time and history. This approach will make people be aware that the station is theirs and give them pleasant passing-by every day, connected with the network of the city.

aerial view – spiral volume

sectional perspective – vertical streets

Through a multi-sensory sequence of spaces, stressful daily metropolitan movements will be changed to an open and interactive experience. From this project, the station will be a new center of the city, and its complementary program will bring about a dynamic social and cultural dimension to the district of Pleyel.

interior space
Developer : Société du Grand Paris
Site : Saint-Denis – Paris, France
Main use : Main train station of the “Grand Paris”, shops, multimedia library, business center
Total floor area : 45 000 m2
Height : 5 stories above ground and 4 below
Quantity Surveyor : LTA
Landscape design : AC&T Paysage
Lightning design : 8’18’’
Acoustician : PEUTZ & Associés
Sustainibility : AIA Studio Environnement
Façade engineer : RFR
Security/Fire consultant : VULCANEO

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