École d'architecture
de la ville & des territoires
Paris-Est

Winter School

Since 2016, the Winter School has been a moment of collective emulation that transforms all the school's spaces into a large workshop for reflection and production, where singular methods and project tools are tested around a contemporary theme. Starting with the 2024 edition, the school has decided to launch a collection to document the educational explorations and productions made possible by the Winter School format, and thus contribute to the life of the architectural discipline at the crossroads of Ensa Paris-Est's founding themes: architecture, the city and territories.

In 2024, the school's Winter School posed questions related to reuse, the reutilization of materials, or recycling. The first means preserves function, the second form, the third matter, but all structure indulgent looks with the material heritage that surrounds us. These processes are all methods …