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Guillaume Bardet’s "multi-focus" workshop
Trains & Stations Accessibility
SNCF R&D + AREP 2007.
To scope my project, I decided to rethink the comfort level of a TGV duplex, the most profitable SNCF product, where accessibility and profitability should try to combine. With focus on the bar car, since it is the only place in a train that reminds us of our kitchen and therefore our home space in a public setting.I treated the train as a mobile infrastructure, just like a bridge. But I also considered it a large piece of furniture, like a sofa. This is where my scope lies: to make the train accessible, one must insert intimate spaces in a public space. I just drew small apartments at the heart of a micro-city, and it is through domesticating this train that disability can better adopt it.
The train is a public, moving space. My project treats train spaces as urban spaces:the lobby and hallways are the village center squarethe bar is the plaza cafeindividual seats are more intimate spaces for each passenger, home to some extent...
But how can nature unconsciously heal?
I'm not talking about a healing miracle aboard my train, but studies show that doctors often draw on nature's remedies to treat their patients psychologically: such is the case of anorexia that can be cured by gardening (Solenne House in Paris). Nature is the antithesis of what disability is in a train: no stress, no embarrassment, no anxiety ... in nature. This is a metaphor that I wanted to translate into down-to-earth representations: wood, plant shapes, optical illusions, irregular graphics (windows) ... The whole purpose being to counteract the train image in this material universe.One thing is for sure: nature unconsciously disturbs us. With this notion of healing Garden I change the image that we have of the train, I transform its world and thus make it psychologically accessibleTo scope my project, I decided to rethink the comfort level of a TGV duplex, the most profitable SNCF product, where accessibility and profitability should try to combine. With focus on the bar car, since it is the only place in a train that reminds us of our kitchen and therefore our home space in a public setting.I treated the train as a mobile infrastructure, just like a bridge. But I also considered it a large piece of furniture, like a sofa. This is where my scope lies: to make the train accessible, one must insert intimate spaces in a public space. I just drew small apartments at the heart of a micro-city, and it is through domesticating this train that disability can better adopt it.
