ARCHITECT Claude Boucher  ARTIST Claude Boucher  INAUGURATED 3 September 1978

Like its larger neighbour Angrignon, the pavilion of this two-level station, a cut-and-cover project, is walled entirely in glass, and the platforms are immediately under street level. This fills the station with light on sunny days, providing passengers with a dazzling flash as their train speeds into the station.

The pavilion's aspect from the outside is a looming, dark monolith rising the surrounding park. This blunt modernist façade belies the bright interior; the yellow corrugated-metal ceiling and its framework seem to float above the floor. The weight of the roof is borne entirely by the walls with no pillars, and conduits are hidden in the beams supporting the ceiling, resulting in a clear, wide-open space.

The wide overlook between the ticket hall balcony and the exterior wall provides plenty of room for light to filter through to ground level. In addition to the startling effect on train passengers, the natural light adds an airy, aboveground feeling to the platform environment for people waiting for their trains.

At night, powerful floodlights replace the sun. These were the first high-pressure sodium lamps to be installed in the metro, and still among the few. They were chosen for their warm colour, in contrast to the greenish tones of fluorescent lights used in other stations.

The platforms are attractively decorated. The walls are clad in concrete brick set at the vertical, textured to lower the noise level. The station nameplates are attractively surrounded by hot pink-orange metal, chosen to complement the colour of the lighting and echoed by the pattern on the floor: forty-two black circles containing orange triangles, which serve as markers helping passengers remember what part of the train they usually board.

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