AREP Group

Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station

Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay

Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station

AREP

ARCHITECTS
Arep

CLIENT
Rff, Cg 94, Sncf Gares & Connexions

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
J.m. Duthilleul, F. Bonnefille, E. Tricaud

STATION BUDGET (GARES & CONNEXIONS)
€9.25 Million

PROJECT COORDINATION
Sncf Gares & Connexions

PHOTOGRAPHS
J. Glay

PLATFORM SHELTER BUDGET (RFF)
€600,000

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
France

CATEGORY
Train Station

Text description provided by architect.

The Créteil-Pompadour station is part a wider programme to create a multi-modal transport hub in the Créteil municipality on the south-east outskirts of Paris.

Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay
Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay

- Modifications to road layout to improve connections between public transport modes?  - Rail infrastructure work to boost SNCF’s transport offering, - The creation of a station building and a footbridge connecting the station with the bus station, commissioned from AREP.

In order to free up as much ground space as possible in this cramped site, sidestep the limitations imposed by track dimensions, and address the site’s potential flooding risk, the main volume of the station is built on stilts rising to a height of almost ten metres above ground level.

Consequently, all passenger service provision is located at the level of the connecting footbridge linking the access platform to the RER Line D train platforms with the dedicated lanes of the two bus networks.

Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay
Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay

Only the small technical building located in the bus turning area is accessible from the station forecourt.

The building is structured using cement-filled metal poles whose grid reflects the patterns of the large-section cross-beams and designed to create the space for a passenger hall with extra capacity for increases in passenger flows, together with all ancillary premises.

Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay
Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay

The range of materials used was deliberately restricted, and comprises wood, metal, and polycarbonate.

The light-coloured wooden façades, which will age to grey, provide a visual unity for the “hanging” space with its unevenly-spaced, inclined supports that echo the slender tree trunks in the adjacent small wood.

Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay© J. Glay
Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay
Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
© J. Glay


Créteil-Pompadour Suburban Station
Master Plan

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