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Kengo Kuma reveals Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station

United Kingdom Architecture News - Mar 25, 2015 - 08:57   7080 views

Kengo Kuma reveals Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station

areal view image ©  Kengo Kuma and Associates 

Kengo Kuma reveals his first-winning prize competition project ''Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station'' for France and main train station of the “Grand Paris” includes shops, multimedia library, business center.Kengo Kuma & Associates won the first prize for the competition “Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station” in Saint-Denis, France.The train station will be the first stone of a future global urban project in the site of Saint-Denis Pleyel.

Kengo Kuma reveals Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station

view of shifting platforms image©  Kengo Kuma and Associates 

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.

Kengo Kuma reveals Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station

3D section showing structural,functional relations image©  Kengo Kuma and Associates 

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.

Kengo Kuma reveals Saint-Denis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station

interior galleries of main train station image©  Kengo Kuma and Associates 

Project Facts

Project Name:Saint-Denis Paris, France
Function:Main train station of the “Grand Paris”, shops, multimedia library, business center
Building Size:45000 m2

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