School in Urban Paris Is A Self-Contained Ecosystem

The école du Trapèze on the outskirts of Paris in Boulogne Billancourt was designed by Paris-based Chartier-Dalix Architects and consists of eighteen classrooms and a sports facility that is open for local residents. Educational spaces are primarily housed on the ground and first floors. Each grade level has its own playground, and each playground has a mineral soil treatment decorated with furniture and some trees. A wall made of prefabricated concrete blocks forms a "living shell" of crevices and interstices of holes of various sizes that can accommodate vegetation and small birds.

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