This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into question, lending it the content of a ?third place? ? a place where members of the public become actors in their own condition, a place for creation as well as reception. In association with the basic programme, the building includes areas for displays, creation, music studios, and a café-restaurant. The various activities in the programme blend into each other, creating a dynamic arrangement. The building comes up close to the crown of plane trees ? this is the first thickness to act as a filter from the street, apparently playing with this first colonnade of plant-life.

© Eugeni Pons

Architects: Dominique Coulon & associés
Location: 1 Avenue André Malraux, 57180 Terville, France

Architects In Charge: Dominique Coulon, Steve Letho Duclos

Area: 4590.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Eugeni Pons, David Romero-Uzeda

Client : Ville de Thionville

Architects Assistants: Gautier Duthoit

Construction Site Supervision : Steve Letho Duclos

Structural Engineer: Batiserf Ingénierie

Electrical Engineer : BET G.Jost

Mechanical Plumbing Engineer : Solares Bauen

Cost Estimator : E3 économie

Acoustics : Euro sound project

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