Station F

2017Coworking SpaceCommercial

Year: 2017
Category: Commercial · Coworking Space
Type: Commercial
Status: Built
Firm: Wilmotte & Associés SAS
Location: Paris, France

The halle Freyssinet, formerly known as “Messageries d’Austerlitz”, is a 310 metres long by 58 metres wide shed for goods transhipment which was built in the late 1920s by French engineer Eugène Freyssinet. This remarkable building in prestressed reinforced concrete is located in the urban renewal area of the Paris Rive Gauche Mixed Development Area. This innovative technique for applying concrete was used to provide the shed with an exceptionally slender loadbearing structure (less than 5 cm thick at the roof ridge in certain places).

Preserving, restoring and modernizing this “rough-cast concrete umbrella” - listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments since 2012 - was a real challenge. It was necessary to give new energy to this historic building, break its isolation by including two public passages through it, providing space for 3,000 workstations, and introducing new significant architectural elements. The former halle Freyssinet now houses STATION F, a 1,000 startup campus, which is a workplace that gathers all the services required for entrepreneurial and digital creation activities.

It aims at creating a greater coherence for a startup ecosystem that was previously fragmented. STATION F is made up of 3 distinct zones: the “Share” forum for digital sharing and interaction, the “Create” zone in the centre of the shed dedicated to startup work spaces, and the “Chill” zone that hosts a 3,500 sq.m restaurant. STATION F is an urban, architectural and human project developed around a central axis that is the size of the Eiffel Tower! Project data Project’s name: Station F – 1,000 startup campus Address: 5 parvis Alan Turing - 75013 Paris Surface area: 34,000 sq.m Client: SDECN/Station F Client‘s Assistant: REDMAN Developer: SEMAPA Landscape designer: D’ICI-LA Architect: MOM Lighting designer:

Coup D’eclat

Engineering consultants: ARTELIA Project design & construction management team members Architect:

Wilmotte & Associes

Historic Monuments Architect: 2BDM Structural engineering consultants:

Sas Mizrahi

Facade consultants: ARCORA HVAC engineering consultants: TRANSSOLAR Building services engineering consultants: BARBANEL Acoustics consultants: LASA Scheduling, supervision & coordination / Construction management: CICAD Quantity Surveyor: GLEEDS Furniture designer:

Wilmotte & Industries

Key figures 1,000 startups 9,000 people (capacity of the building) 3,000 workstations for startups 1 Fablab 1,370-seat auditorium 8 event spaces 4 kitchens 2 cafés-bar Timeline 2012: inclusion of the shed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments 24.09.2013: official announcement of the project December 2013: submission of the Building Permit application April 2014: obtention of the Building Permit December 2014: start of construction work June 2016: Halle Freyssinet / 1,000 Startups became