La Défense RER Station Concourse, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

The main concourse of La Défense RER station sits directly beneath the Les Quatre Temps shopping mall, the two functions stacked and inseparable. From the elevated walkway, the circular ticket booths read as anchors in a floor that never stops moving — commuters spilling through turnstiles, queuing at machines, crossing toward escalators. The raw concrete ceiling above and the teal glow of the ticket kiosks below hold the same space: infrastructure wearing retail as a second skin.