Chebydesic Pavilion
The Chebydesic Pavilion built during the 2021 edition is an original concept combining active bending structures with Chebyshev networks, geodesics, Voss surfaces and nexorade.
DiXite
Digital Construction Site After radically transforming the worlds of design and production in car manufacturing and aeronautics, digital technologies are now entering the construction sector. How to automate one of the last low-qualification job sector without causing human problems? How do we develop new trades and new jobs ? How [...]
Construire le courbe 2018
Début imminent de l'atelier 2018, centré sur la construction en bois, la conception sous contraintes, l'analyse des structures, et la mise en pratique de ces notions sur un ouvrage expérimental.
Building freeform 2017
This edition exploits the new robotic manufacturing cell and address main complex structures constraints: connections, flatness of panels and formal freedom.
Building freeform 2016
Everything changes for this edition of the workshop dedicated to double curved structures. Realization of a full scale wooden gridshell is foreseen.
Robotised shell and arches
The ENPC hosted its first robotic workshop revisiting the classic notions of funicular arches and stereotomy in the light of digital design and fabrication.
Hybrid Structural Skin
Bracing elastic gridshells in their final form remains a time consuming step with a lot of handiwork. The lack of alternative to membrane covering is also an important limit to the development of such technology. The proposed experiment tries to tackle both issues through a novel concept of hybrid structural skin made of an elastic gridshell braced with a concrete envelop. The idea is to use the gridshell as formwork for the concrete and to insure a connection between the thin concrete skin.
Building freeform 2015
Enthousiastic edition with three large and successfull pavilions: a gigantic membrane, an orange elastic gridshell and a convincing torsion free doubly curved grid.
Arch Design
@ENPC - Sept. 2015 - O. Baverel, M. Brocato, G. Moreau This workshop offers an insight on the design and construction of masonry structures. The students apply some key concepts and systematic engineering procedures to the construction of full-scale arches. Program [...]
Crossing my bridge 2015
In one week, students get familiar with all the steps of the design process and make the physical experiment of a bridge they have just conceived.