In the overall process of urban equilibration of Paris, the project TAM-TAM (comprising quarters Tolbiac, Austerlitz and Masana) brings a new prestige to the Eastern part of the city. In the last huge space to rebuild intra muros, Parisian urban planners faced a significant problem: connection of the newly built bridge Charles de Gaulle, between the Gare de Lyon and the Gare d’Austerlitz, and the future Avenue de France.
This proposal brings back coherence to the 13th arrondissement urban matrix and to the Parisian system of public spaces. The Avenue is conceived as a multilevel and flexible system of paths and platforms, of the built and the unbuilt, open and closed, which generates green and public spaces. The presence – and thus the history – of the railway tracks that once brought city life in this peripheral zone, and today dynamize it, is preserved, symbolizing the intermodal character of Austerlitz.