By 2020-2025, RATP will be creating several new stations on the existing metro network. The architectural work carried out for each of these projects has highlighted the need to build a common, cross-disciplinary contemporary identity. In the wider context of Greater Paris, it was essential that this identity be sufficiently powerful to confirm to the public the performance of the metro network and the competence of the RATP company in charge of it. With the number and diversity of stations to be created, the line 11 extension project offers the opportunity to once again bring this more transversal ambition to bear, in line with the challenges of economic efficiency and standardization, while taking up the challenge of renewing the "Métro style" in a contemporary way.
The aim of this Architectural and Identity Charter for the design of new stations in the Métro network is to define common rules for the ambience and components of new stations. This charter is a starting point for project managers. It develops responses capable of providing a coherent, identity-based approach to all new Metro spaces, even beyond the new stations on line 11.
The aim of this Architectural and Identity Charter for the design of new stations in the Metro network is to define common rules for the ambience and components of new stations. This charter is a starting point for project managers. It develops responses capable of treating all new Metro spaces with coherence and identity, even beyond the new stations on line 11.
Creating an architectural charter means both proposing continuity and leaving room for surprises.
two contradictory notions that make up the DNA of the metro. For
to design the new stations and translate the world of the Paris metro into contemporary
Paris metro, Patrick Jouin has drawn on RATP's heritage to create a basic grammar.
This is made up of the following elements:
- station entrances as urban landmarks and promises of the network ;
- clarity as a symbol of hygiene and light;
- ceramics, a timeless material, as an element of identity;
- arches and curves as strong architectural elements and symbols of the fluidity
of travel;
- objects as expressions of technology and performance.
