THE STATION WALKER - AN ARCHITECTURE OF BODIES

How does space affect the body? This question is at the heart of the Pauline Detavernier's thoughts on the station and the walkers who use it cross. There are different ways of perceiving them: as travelers, as users, as regulars… but also as sensitive individuals, customers potentials or "particles" of a flow. These figures of the station are cumulative and complementary, and are articulated in a ballet with little exploited potential. might think that the spatial arrangement of the railway structure facilitates walking; but this is not the case. Today, as in the 19th century, the station is a restless place where the inexperienced traveler feels disoriented. Walkers do not do not have the romantic status of the city stroller or the Wanderer in nature: They are simply a flow. In the station, the crowd prevails over the individual, and this is not It is no coincidence that pedestrians are rarely present in the responses. spatial solutions put forward by designers and railway companies. However, the traveler's journey is not just an automated wandering: it cunning, adapts, and metamorphoses throughout the journey intended for it. Through stories and re-drawings of historic stations, The Station Walker proposes to reappropriate the action of walking to design spaces smoother railways and better understand the architecture of the bodies that plays in the station as on many other scales.