博尼社会教育中心丨法国梅斯丨ABC Studio

Architects:ABC Studio

Area:2000m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Charly Broyez,Cyrille Lallement,ABC Studio

Category:Educational Architecture,Community Center

Client:City of Metz

Design Team:ABC Studio architectes

Collaborators:BET Trigo, Leslie Acoustique, Ecohal

City:Metz

Country:France

Text description provided by the architects. Arising from meadow-like tall grasses is ABC's new socio-educational center, delivered last July. Despite appearances, it is no countryside landscape but a dive into the atypical Borny district of the French eastern city of Metz.

Borny is a prime outcome of French urban policies of the 1960s aimed at expanding suburban areas, an ordered composition by architect Jean Dubuisson of tall housing towers and linear blocks unfolding around them.

Sixty years on, its original silhouette has been reshaped, leaving occasional voids in its original grid. Filling one of these, ABC's new socio-educational center seeks to heal the territory — its history, memory, and needs — through a pedagogy-focused, community-oriented program: association spaces, playgrounds, therapy, and care rooms.

Draped around a simple volume, its facade alternates between opaque and transparent, framing views of a landscape of towers and slopes.

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