The Ponts Midi Pyrénées / Toulouse regional group invites you to an evening event on

Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 6:30 pm

Program:

• 18:30 to 19:00: Welcome at FabLab Artilect
  
  
• 19:00 to 20:00: Conference on the theme of "complex timber structures",
  With presentation of two atypical projects: the Cité du Vin de Bordeaux and a gridshell pavilion.
  
  For the glued-laminated timber frame of the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux, X-TU architects, Vinci subsidiary Arbonis, subcontracted the execution studies to Terrell, a gridshell design office.cution studies to Terrell, a structural design office, which will present the complexities of modeling and determining the behavior of geometrically non-standard structures.
  
  
  
  For the Quaternion architects' gridshell structure, engineers from Terrell, together with engineers from TESS and teacher-researchers from the Navier laboratory of the Ponts et Chaussées engineering school, will present the gridshell concept.will present the gridshell concept developed by Frei Otto, a reticulated wood structure with pre-stressed form, forming a double-curved surface obtained by elastic deformation.
  
  
  
  
• 20:00 to 21:30: Cocktail & Galette des rois

Speakers:

- Guillaume Laurent (Civil Ponts 2013), architect-engineer, Terrell
- Mathieu Sudres, architect, Quaternion
- Simon Hulin, architect, Quaternion

Participation: depending on number of participants (between 5 and 10 euros), payable on site.

Online registration by January 17.