It is located in the Rive Gauche urban renewal area, near the National Library by Dominique Perrault. Halle Freyssinet offers the city and Europe as a whole a large urban incubator devoted to the dynamic world of startups. Station F, open to the public seven days a week, 24 hours a day, contains 3000 workstations for startuppers, 60 meeting rooms and a 370-seat auditorium, a restaurant and two bars.
The renovation of the rail depot, connected to the approach of reuse and transformation of urban artifacts that is one of the most widespread practices in architecture in the new millennium, has approached the ample spaces of the naves by emphasizing the central one, lit by a large continuous overhead skylight, and by working on multiple levels in the lateral aisles, which are slightly lower.
The interior of the historic building, again open for use by the city, reflects the versatile philosophy of the campus, which sets out to include as many sectors as possible among the many now in evolution today, to foster growth and the implementation of new technologies.