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Villejuif Gustave Roussy Station / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Villejuif-Gustave Roussy Station aims to erase the threshold between the open public space and the closed space of the station by blurring the limits of the city. Its helicoidal architecture on the surface exerts a centripetal force on the urban fabric which draws it towards the space that has been completed underground. The large concrete cylinder with its molded wall, flooded with light, is traversed, and enlivened by footbridges and escalators. Here, the sky of this inverted skyscraper is simply the ground level of the city. Natural light pours all the way down to the platforms located some fifty meters below. The sky is above the railways. This exposed infrastructure is given maximum visibility and incorporates the logic of construction. The architectural layout is part of the urban cityscape. By erasing in the ground and prolonging uses and views between the surface and the subterranean domain, it unifies the vertical dynamics of access to the transport network. The architectural treatment transfigures this infrastructure now become architecture. Without walls or façade, the architecture of this station sunken into the ground is not in opposition to the city or anything else. It frees the horizon and disappears from the urban silhouette, swallowing up with it then bit of sky. - Dominique Perrault, 2024

Lozaits-Seguin Work Assistance Establishment and Services - ESAT / DREAM

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In January 2024, the DREAM AGENCY inaugurated the Lozaits-Seguin Work Assistance Establishment and Services (ESAT) in Villejuif (Grand Paris - France). A social and solidarity-based project, the 3,570 m2 facility welcomes over 150 people with disabilities in a comfortable, bright, and adapted environment.

Simone Veil Group of Schools in Villejuif / Dominique Coulon & associés

Paula Pintos — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000

This group of schools is part of the response to the shortage of school premises in the center and northern parts of the town of Villejuif, on the outskirts of Paris. The reservoir site where it is located is exceptional in the town, on two counts: it is protected from sound disturbance, and it has a number of large trees in addition to its water feature.

Spiral House / OVERCODE architecture urbanisme

Andreas Luco — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Mr. « M » and his family contracted the office to design their new home in a recently purchased small site up the hill of Villejuif city (125m²), a town in the suburbs of Paris. The parcel is located in a garden housing district characterized by single-family homes. The terrain is south-oriented and directly accessible from the main road. The family wished for a three-bedroom house, with a study area, living-dining room, and a garden totalizing a built-up area of around 80m².