A transalpine infrastructure as a catalyst for reshaping a transit territory

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is an Alpine town whose story is told first and foremost through its landscape: nestled within the Arc valley, backed by the Vanoise and Grandes Rousses massifs, it has always served as a gateway between France and Italy. The arrival of the Lyon-Turin high-speed rail line fits into the historical and geographical context of this region.

The new international station translates this long-standing vocation into architecture and public space, reshaping the city’s entrance around a new focal point befitting the scale of the project. Designed to support thirty years of infrastructure transformations, the facility is conceived as an open structure: capable of accommodating both the local traveller returning from the slopes and the international passenger crossing the Alps, and of evolving alongside them.