The station is on the site of the Barrière-d’Ivry, a gate in the Wall of the Farmers-General, where taxes were collected on goods brought into the city from 1818 to 1860.

[1] This was a middle-class militia created on 13 July 1789 for the maintenance of law and order in Paris.

It opens onto a communal area under the viaduct from where access to the platforms is by means of stairs or escalators.

It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks, all covered with a glass roof in the style of the canopies of the stations of the time.

The vertical walls are covered with bevelled white ceramic tiles on the inside, and bricks drawing geometric patterns on the outside.