VILLEJUIF – GUSTAVE
ROUSSY STATION
VILLEJUIF
FRANCE, 2013-2025
TRANSPORT
PR–655
Located at the foot of the Gustave Roussy Institute, the station was inaugurated in January 2025. With some 50 meters separating the city from the platforms, the Villejuif-Gustave Roussy station, emblematic of the Grand Paris Express, is one of the deepest transportation infrastructures in Europe.
GALLERY
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PROGRAMME
The Villejuif-Gustave-Roussy station serves the Zac Campus Grand-Parc and the Gustave-Roussy Institute, Europe’s leading cancer treatment center. Located on line 14, which extends south to Orly Airport, the station will also provide a connection to line 15 South, linking Pont-de-Sèvres to Noisy-Champs, from summer 2026, and will welcome 100,000 passengers per day.
DETAIL
Situation
Voie des Sables, 94800 Villejuif, France
Year
2013–2025
Status
International competition, winning project
Site area
7 500 m²
Station area
15 600 m²
Built volume
203 700 m³
Well diameter
62 m
Depth of the station
51 m
Project management
Société des grands projets (SGP), Saint-Denis
Project implementation
Dominique Perrault Architecte
Engineering project management
Setec
Engineering
Setec TPI, Setec bâtiment, Tess, Axio, Jean-Paul Lamoureux, Denis Thélot
Interior architect and design
Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
Artist
Iván Navarro
DESCRIPTION
Envisioned as a connector between the world above and the world below, the station’s architecture elevates the infrastructure and the moment of travel: blurring the boundaries between open and closed spaces, opening its floor to the public space of the street, it does not oppose the city with a built facade and allows air and natural light to circulate down to the platforms fifty meters below ground.
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An invitation to a “journey within a journey,” the route is peaceful but not without flavor: the soaring escalators and staircases create an extraordinary Piranesian space that infiltrates the fabric of the territory and extends the vertical dynamics of access to the transportation networks with the movements of the city.
Award 04.12.2025
VILLEJUIF-GUSTAVE ROUSSY STATION NOMINATED FOR THE 2025 VERSAILLES AWARD IN THE “RAILWAY STATIONS AND TRANSPORT TERMINALS” CATEGORY
OPENING OF THE VILLEJUIF-GUSTAVE ROUSSY STATION ON THE GRAND PARIS EXPRESS
© Michel Denancé
Started in 2017, works on the Villejuif-Gustave Roussy station have been completed on December 19, 2024, with a ceremony marking the transfer of technical management of the station. On Saturday, January 18, the station will open its doors to users of line 14 before welcoming passengers on line 15 South when it enters service.
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