Du 31.03.2025
au 04.04.2025
Workshop
sur les sites de l'Ensa Paris-Est et de l'école des Ponts

École des Ponts Paris-Tech, Ensa Paris-Est and École Penninghen have joined forces to organize Les Ateliers Design: an intensive week of workshops bringing together student engineers, architects and designers with a common ambition: to design and manufacture an object with a mechanical function.

Divided into multi-disciplinary design teams, the 350 students design objects of various kinds - bicycles, gliders, boats, bridges, towers, shelters, hulls, fans - over the course of a week, with the only constraint being their feasibility within the school's resources. All the objects have to be resource-efficient, which most often means playing with the limits of materials.

The aim of these design/creation workshops is to establish a link between mathematical knowledge and its physical materialization, by giving students the means to estimate the orders of magnitude of the physical phenomena involved; and to gain an insight into the intelligence of matter, and understand that we don't make the same thing at all scales and with all materials.

The Design Workshops comprise 13 intensive workshops over the course of a week shared by three schools.

Theme A: Echo des cabanes Design a kinetic, slender, aesthetic and poetic sculpture, whose oscillations will be anticipated in the design process.
Theme B: Structural wicker Design, model, calculate (with the help of the BAYA algorithm) and then weave roofs covering a surface area of 12 m2 without intermediate supports.
Theme C: Aérodermes Create inflatable stretched structures from rope and canvas.
Theme D: UROs: Unidentified Rolling Objects Design and build vehicle-habitacles whose shape and piloting generate a singular trajectory.
Theme E: Canyon Street Design thermal architectures within a model street lined with building facades.
Theme F: Oculus shades Design and build a shaded surface on a 3 m diameter disk, supported by a wooden batten structure.
Theme G: Glider Design, dimension, draw, build and test a glider with a maximum wingspan of 2.5 meters, carrying two payloads of specified volume and mass.
Theme H: Car-tower Design a 7-meter-high belfry frame capable of carrying the heaviest possible load.
Theme I: Titanic pylons Design 6 wooden pylons using calculations, drawings and models, then manufacture them on a 1:1 scale.
Theme J: Soapboxes Build a soapbox-type vehicle and test it on a racetrack.
Theme K: Crossing my bridge Building wooden bridges to scale, inspired by the small-scale design of the metal viaducts and bridges of Europe's second industrial revolution.
Theme L: Paper arches: design, development and production of a load-bearing structure using mediocre and unlikely materials, in limited quality.
Theme M: KIT'abri: creation of an elementary volume in kit form from bamboo.