Simple as a brushstroke, slender in form, the Claude Bernard overpass elegantly spans the boulevard Périphérique between Aubervilliers and Paris. This arched timber structure, nearly 100 metres in length, connects the Parc du Millénaire to the Claude Bernard urban development zone, the very embodiment of an emblematic site. In this rapidly-changing district, a  agship for development policy in the north-east of the Ile-de-France, o ce blocks and residential buildings rub shoulders with a cinema, a nursing home, a nursery, a school, sports facilities, a multi-mode transport hub (incorporating the RER E rapid transit line, four bus routes, and routes 3 and T8 on the tram system), a park and a
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Architects: DVVD Engineers Architects Designers

Location: 19th arrondissement, Paris, France

Team: Paula Castro, Céline Cerisier, Vincent Dominguez, Toma Dryjski, Bertrand Potel, Louis Ratajczak, Daniel Vaniche

Project Manager: Clément Carrière, Nicolas Didier

Area: 392.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Luc Boegly, Nathalie Prébende

Contractors: Segex

Structural Works: Razel-bec

Contracting Authority: SEMAVIP

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Simple as a brushstroke, slender in form, the Claude Bernard overpass elegantly spans the boulevard Pé...