Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
15 Aug 2008, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Abstract
EOLE is the line E of the Paris express subway network serving two new stations: Magenta and Haussmann, located in the capital’s most important business districts. The project is designed to provide relief to the current network which had reached saturation in the East-West direction where the public resides in the East and work in the West. With its subterraneous network of connections and passageways, EOLE is a vast underground complex, a place of constant exchange with the urban environment, set in the very heart of Paris. Conquering the underground, supporting the city, domesticating space, architectonising concrete, bringing light under control, integrating the project into the city, minimizing the impact of construction work on living environment of Parisians, etc., such were the engineers and architects challenges in building the EOLE unprecedented stations. In this paper, the design and construction details of the project NATM stations are presented in detail.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Nasri, Verya and Fauvel, Philippe, "Construction of Express Subway Line Eole in Paris" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 8.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session06/8
Construction of Express Subway Line Eole in Paris
Arlington, Virginia
EOLE is the line E of the Paris express subway network serving two new stations: Magenta and Haussmann, located in the capital’s most important business districts. The project is designed to provide relief to the current network which had reached saturation in the East-West direction where the public resides in the East and work in the West. With its subterraneous network of connections and passageways, EOLE is a vast underground complex, a place of constant exchange with the urban environment, set in the very heart of Paris. Conquering the underground, supporting the city, domesticating space, architectonising concrete, bringing light under control, integrating the project into the city, minimizing the impact of construction work on living environment of Parisians, etc., such were the engineers and architects challenges in building the EOLE unprecedented stations. In this paper, the design and construction details of the project NATM stations are presented in detail.
