Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Student works
  4. Above the Tracks: Reactivating Gare de Sébeillon as Urban Platform for Culture, Work, and Living
 
master thesis

Above the Tracks: Reactivating Gare de Sébeillon as Urban Platform for Culture, Work, and Living

Niewiarowski, Kewin
2025

Suspended above the tracks, the gare de Sébeillon in Lausanne–formerly a goods station–is an architectural machine, witness of an era. Its monumental interior, once pulsing with the rhythm of logistics, is now fragmented and dispersed. It no longer reflects its original strength, yet it still harbours latent potential. The project acts as a revivalist gesture—not through nostalgia, but through transformation. The hall regains its monumental presence as a space for exhibitions, events and an urban market, potentially taking over the role that the Riponne square held for decades, whose planned redevelopment may prevent this function. The warehouse section is being converted for everyday use: restaurants and services will occupy the ground floor, with offices above, addressing the needs of a growing, diverse community. A new architectural layer settles on the existing structure: a building that cooperates with the old grid, reinforcing it and creating a new load-bearing system for the addition of offices and residential floors. This responds to local demands and the district’s new urban plan. This project embodies the coexistence of layers: history and the future; the existing and the added; the preserved and the transformed. Instead of erasing, it overwrites. Instead of demolishing, it strengthens. Sébeillon once again becomes an active entity: an urban platform where architecture shapes space and creates a stage for life.

  • Files
  • Details
  • Metrics
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name

2025_062_niewiarowski_enonce_enonce_01.pdf.pdf

Type

Main Document

Version

Not Applicable (or Unknown)

Access type

openaccess

License Condition

CC BY

Size

19.28 MB

Format

Adobe PDF

Checksum (MD5)

78151f1c7ad29f58efb6461f0edc5828

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name

2025_062_niewiarowski_planche_planche01.pdf

Type

Figures

Version

Not Applicable (or Unknown)

Access type

openaccess

License Condition

CC BY

Size

13.89 MB

Format

Adobe PDF

Checksum (MD5)

69c23aa796dbc7acd71276c541d990cf

Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés