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.

The workshop will begin by observing and collecting fragments from the environment of Boisbuchet - landscapes, architectural details, textures, and found objects in order to create a library of elemental forms. The participants can choose either to collect and transform these elements via digital capture techniques (including 3D scanning and 3d modelling) or direct physical manipulation.

The combination of digital and physical elements is encouraged but not imposed in a process that, rather than evolving linearly from screen to physical, will take the form of a continuous back-and-forth: digital forms will inspire manual interventions, while physical experiences will reshape computer-generated results.

The workshop will culminate in the creation of aluminium cast elements. Moulds will be developed from this mixed process and used to produce metal forms that may be combined with raw components sourced directly from the Domaine from the imbrication of seemingly antithetical approaches. Doing so, we will explore the tensions generated by the entanglement of opposite forces within design methods, materials, and form.