A 73-meter tower to enlarge the National Archives of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine

Le projet permettra également une circulation plus rapide pour les agents, grâce à deux ascenseurs.

Posted Sep 27, 2022, 6:34 PMUpdated on Sep 27, 2022 at 6:35 PM

National Archives at the height of History. On September 21, the Ministry of Culture announced the winners of the project to extend the National Archives of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis). Already considered the largest archive building in Europe, with more than 300 kilometers of shelving, this extension, which will take the form of a 73-meter high tower, will add 100 kilometers of “stores”. An additional space made necessary by the arrival, at the end of 2022 in Pierrefitte, of a stock of archives from the Fontainebleau site.

Limit nuisance

Initially planned for 2040, the expansion of the building therefore had to be brought forward. Work should begin at the end of 2024, after modification of the Local Intermunicipal Urban Plan (PLUi) and purge of the building permit, for delivery scheduled for 2027.

The selected project, led by a group led by the AUC agency, won the preference of the jury and the Ministry of Culture for several reasons. “First of all, architecturally and aesthetically, this tower has the advantage of breaking with the horizontality of the current building, and of allowing visibility from afar, especially from the ZAC des Tartres, which adjoins the site”, explains Bruno Ricard , Director of the National Archives.

“This also makes it possible to limit the nuisance, for the local residents first of all, who would have had, in the case of a more horizontal project, their view masked by a very massive building and who would have been deprived of sunlight for much of the day. And then it makes it possible to uproot fewer trees on the ground, even if some will still have to be replanted, on site or in the territory of the Plaine Commune intermunicipal authority, ”he adds.

A project at 87.6 million euros

Currently in the public inquiry phase, the project has received, according to the director of the National Archives, the approval of the inhabitants as well as all the elected officials of the territory.

At a cost of 87.6 million euros, all expenses included, the project will be 70% financed by the Ministry of Culture, the contracting authority and managing the National Archives in particular, and 30% by the other ministries, including the archives are stored in the building, in proportion to their contributions to these stocks. This does not concern the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Armed Forces and the Economy, which manage their own archives themselves.

The extension should make it possible, “according to prudent forecasts”, not to run out of space at least until 2050. or the fact that we still receive physical documents, whereas they are all digitized today. It is therefore likely that this extension will suffice for even longer,” says Bruno Ricard.

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