Model workshop

A wide range of techniques are offered and supervised. It is a place for learning about design and construction, enabling the centre to meet the students’ varying needs and expectations each year, thanks to a dedicated team. On a day-to-day basis, the workshop produces numerous models (between 500 and 1,000 each year) at various scales (from 1:1 to 1:5,000) of landscapes and buildings, including cross-sections in relief.

The models are made using a variety of materials: resins, wood, polyester, plaster, fibreglass, foam, card, Plexiglas, etc. Whether created by hand or digitally, the workshop has the necessary resources to enable everyone to express and bring their project to life:

• an experimentation area
• a digital workshop
• a woodworking workshop
• a metalworking workshop.

The workshop is equipped with, amongst other things:

• Promac 370E column-type bench drills
• portable power tools
• stone-cutting machines
• band saws
• a circular saw
• a planer
• a Striebig panel saw
• angle grinders
• Stirocut 2 hot wire cutters
• two laser cutters
• three 3D printers
• a ShopBot Buddy digital milling machine.