The Rail Operating Center in Pantin is part of EOLE, a massive infrastructure project led by SNCF – Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer français (the French National Railway), aimed to develop the regional railway network to the west. The Center will be in control of national and regional traffic.

The building is also the first project of the future Ecoquartier, a new district for housing, public facilities, and offices to be developed before 2030.

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The Pantin Rail Operating Center is therefore a complex and ambitious project. It will define a new urban model: a technical and logistics building, in the very hearth of the city, a Campus that will house the signaling equipments and their operators, as well as all the offices engaged in the operating functions.

The solution offered by SCAPE to this complex problem is based on a reference drawn from its Italian origins, the Renaissance Villa: an iconic building, defined by a walled enclosure housing a microcosm made of gardens, living and working areas. Those ‘ensembles’, once isolated, have merged over time with the city that was developing all around, and have eventually become part of the urban fabric.

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