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assembling - revealing

details, ornament & reuse
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with Clémence Frot
ENSA Paris Malaquais
Computational Workshop L3
2025-2027
The Assembling - Revealing workshop introduces third-year students in architecture to 3D printing and its possible applications in their practice, while questioning the role of assemblies, ornaments and material reuse.

Assembly in design is by essence technical, allowing for the connections of two elements, but it can also become an aesthetic language in itself, an ornament which reveals materiality, constructive precision or detailed beauty.1,2 The session invites the students to become familiar with a typical assembly, and transform it into a strong visual element, to make it noticeable, emphasized, magnified. It is also a first contact with material reuse processes, which are particularly compatible with digital fabrication techniques, fast prototyping, and their capacity to adapt to non-standard elements and unique pieces.3,4

Welcomed to play with irregularities, accidents, or deformations of reused materials, the students design and build a set of assemblies allowing the fabrication of an experimental piece of furniture from the domestic space, questioning its shape, use or impact on ambiances. After choosing a typical assembly system, they explore the possibilities to make it an aesthetic element of their design, while staying adaptable to the constraints of reuse via 3D modelling and 3D printing.  Importance is given to the ornemental aspect, by finding inspirations in historical and contemporary references, as well as collective practices of resource sharing by building a common catalogue.5,6

1. A. Racinet & A. Dupont-Auberville – The World of Ornament (2015)
2. Andrea Caputo, Anniina Koivu (ed) - U-JOINTS – A taxonomy of connections (2022)
3. Mario Carpo - The Second Digital Turn: Design beyond Intelligence (2017)
4. Octave Perrault - Après 2008, vers un écosystème numérique in Archiscopie 22 (2020)
5. Nathalie Bruyère (ed) - Global Tools (1973-1975) – Éco-Design : Dé-projet & Low-Tech (2023)
6. Stewart Brand- Whole Earth Catalog (1969)







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xs / xxl

inhabiting the relics of the anthropocene
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with Romain Curnier
ENSA Paris Malaquais
Computational Workshop L2
2020
The XS/XXL workshop aims to introduce second-year students in architecture to representational tools and techniques, such as 2D drawings, 3D modeling and parametric design, as well as their underlying logics to extract various representation documents such as plan drawings, sections and axonometric views.
As a nod to the architecture classic S, M, L, XL,1 the session seeks to confront two extreme scales of construction by associating a standard element of architecture to a landscape-scale infrastructure. The XS scale focuses on details and components at the core of architectural practice and design techniques.2 From the door knob to the stair, their scale define how bodies interact with their surroundings and ultimately, characterize the very experience of a given space, from its symbolic perception to its physical apprehension. At the other end of the spectrum, the XXL scale encompasses human-made infrastructures that were built to accommodate our modern way of life. Dividing territories and decorating the lands they inhabit, their scale and technical complexity almost turn them as non-places - unwelcoming spaces devoid of any human activity.3,4 And yet, they are the markers of a new era, and their bodies will mark landscapes for decades to come.5,6

The XS/XXL workshop proposes the students to explore ways to domesticate, to tame these gigantic relics with a playful, formal approach. Each group of students is invited to develop an in-situ installation, a monumental intervention on an existing remarkable infrastructure among a selection of different contexts and typologies, using mainly a parametric version of a traditional element of architecture - playing with parameters such as size, shape, repetition or the reinterpretation of its components to arrive at a variable object that can be used to create interesting spatialities. 

1. Koolhaas, Rem, Bruce Mau and OMA. S, M, L , XL. New York : Monacelli Press, 1998.
2. Koolhaas, Rem & OMA. Elements of Architecture. Köln : Taschen, 2018.
3. Shibata, Toshio. CONTACTS. Poursuite Editions, 2013.
4. Tabuchi, Eric. EDF - Electricité de France. Poursuite Editions, 2019.
5. Bratton, Benjamin. The Terraforming. Moscou : Strelka Press, 2019.
6. Baichwal, Jennifer et Nicholas de Pencier. Anthropocene - The Human Epoch. USA, 2020.







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exquisite space(s)

forms and figures, cities and architectures
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with Romain Curnier
ENSA Paris Malaquais
Computational Workshop L2
2019
The Exquisite Space(s) workshop aims to introduce second-year students in architecture to representational tools and techniques, such as 2D drawings, 3D modeling and parametric design, as well as their underlying logics to extract various representation documents such as plan drawings, sections and axonometric views.

The session seeks to explore the modes of interaction between collective/shared/public spaces and private/individual ones. These qualifications, whose significance depends on a given historical and ideological context, are today reconfigured by technological innovations and their introduction in everyday life - in productive spaces as well as in public or domestic spaces. For a few years already, the domestic figure of the home has been challenged, in its productive aspect as well as in its handling of privacy.1,2,3 The sharing and pooling of resources (material, economic, or spatial ones) make now the subject of several researches and experimentations.4,5,6 The session thus proposes to create a shared habitable space with different degrees of privacy. It attempts to question the different modes of interaction between collective and individual spaces, as well as how they are influenced by partitioning and architectural composition.7,8

Inspired by the protocol of the surrealist literary game of the "exquisite corpse", the students collectively compose a common continuous space, made of 12 cubes of 9-meter sides. After using the diagram and its abstraction potential to define a global delimitation between collective and private spaces, each group develops a volumetric handling of partitioning using parametric variables - exploring different variations to fine-tune and qualify one version of the habitable space.

1. airbnb pavilion (AYR). "home", in Fulcrum, Issue 96 (June 2, 2014). London : Bedford Press, 2014.
2. Hardt, Michael and Delia Duong Ba Wendel. Destroying Family (Interview), in Family Planning, Harvard Design Magazine, No. 41, 2015.
3. McGuirk, Justin. "Honewell, I'm Home! The Internet of Things and the New Domestic Landscape", in e-flux, n°64, April 2015.
4. Jack Self, Shumi Bose, Finn Williams with åyr, Dogma, Julia King, Hesselbrand - British Pavilion, Venice Biennale- Venise, IT - 2016
5. Dogma + Realism Working Group. "Production, Reproduction, Co-operation : The Villa from 'Negative Utopia' to Communal House", in Communal Villa: Production and Reproduction in Artists’ Housing. Leipzig: Spector Books/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2016, pp 13-31
6. Stavrides, Stavros. "Common Space as Threshold Space : Urban Commoning in Struggles to Re-appropriate Public Space", in Commoning as Differentiated Publicness, Footprint, Spring 2015, pp 9-20.
7. Aureli, Pier Vittorio. "Toward the Archipelago", in The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. MIT Press : Cambridge, 2011, pp 1-46.
8. Krier, Rob. Urban Space. Academy Editions : London, 1979.