France, 2024
Architecture
L'Haÿ-Les-Roses station, line 14
As part of the extension of the Grand Paris Express Line 14 south, Franklin Azzi designed the new L'Haÿ-les-Roses station at the intersection of the municipalities of L'Haÿ-Les-Roses, Chevilly-Larue, and Villejuif. This station will allow the 40,000 daily users to reach the center of Paris five times faster.
Franklin Azzi imagined an 8-level parallelepiped structure with a depth of 21 meters. Its apparent simplicity serves the highly complex purpose of a station: optimizing flows. The result is a quasi-brutalist aesthetic rhythmically defined by architectural lines—stairs, corridors, Warren trusses—and reflections and transparency effects created by materials such as glass, stainless steel, metal mesh, and white Corian.