This workshop explores the relationship between digital tools and hands-on material experimentation. Led by Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet, it brings together two complementary approaches: Large’s use of digital images and computational processes to generate objects, and Blandet’s direct engagement with materials, where structures and mechanisms emerge through making. The workshop investigates how seemingly opposite forces—digital and manual, natural and artificial, liquid and solid—can intersect within the same design process.

Participants will begin by scanning and analysing elements of Boisbuchet’s environment using 3D scanning and digital tools. Landscapes, architectural details and objects found on site will serve as starting points. These digital captures will then be manipulated through modelling, sculpting and prototyping, allowing participants to move fluidly between digital and manual processes.

The workshop culminates in the production of moulds for aluminium casting. The forms developed during the week—whether digitally generated or hand-shaped—will be cast in molten metal and assembled with additional materials sourced directly from the Domaine. Participants will explore how objects evolve as they move from data to material, discovering unexpected forms and structures through the interplay of opposing elements.