As part of the conference cycle associated with the exhibition "Metro! Grand Paris on the move", which is being held at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Patricia Pelloux, deputy director of Apur will speak at a table- round on Monday March 4.
“Resulting from a co-construction process between an architect and an artist, brought together within a complementary and lasting work, the sixty-eight stations of the Grand Paris Express (GPE) network constitute, each in its context, an element specific, recognizable and unique. These singular and symbolic gestures, enriching their host territories, are all signs that unite a common imagination and show that Greater Paris is not just a big equation to solve. Establishing territory, creating local and global links, activating a memory of places, rebuilding station districts, these are the shared challenges.
Underpinned by an affirmed principle of diversity, ruling out any generic solution, these stations outline a map of projects where typological connections appear implicitly. »
(excerpt from “The station, a matter of typology”, Sophie Trelcat, Métro! Le Grand Paris en movement, 2023, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine / RMN-GP)
With :
- Silvio d'Ascia, architect
- Jacques Pajot, architect, Atelier Novembre
- Patricia Pelloux, deputy director of Apur, designer of the Grand Paris Express station neighborhood observatory
- Julien Peyron, executive director of stations and the city, Grand Paris Express
- David Trottin, architect, Périphériques Marin+Trottin architects
- Aurélie Vernon, architect, Kengo Kuma and Associates