Borny Socio-Educational Center
BORNY SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Abc Studio
ARCHITECTS
Abc Studio
DESIGN TEAM
Abc Studio Architectes
COLLABORATORS
Bet Trigo, Leslie Acoustique, Ecohal
CLIENT
City Of Metz
PHOTOGRAPHS
Charly Broyez, Cyrille Lallement, ABC Studio
AREA
2000 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Metz, France
CATEGORY
Educational Architecture, Community Center
English 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.
