Project description

BamX CEPV–Epenex is a design/build project that emerged from a collaboration between the Centre d’Enseignement Professionnel de Vevey (CEPV), temporarily located at Epenex, and the Geometric Computing Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The project forms part of the broader BamX initiative, which explores how advanced computational design can be translated into accessible construction logics, enabling non-expert participants to fabricate structurally and geometrically sophisticated lightweight structures.

Conceived as both a pedagogical and experimental platform, the design was developed at EPFL through advanced geometric modeling and physically informed optimization strategies. Rather than relying on digital fabrication workflows, the subsequent materialization process centered on translating the governing geometric principles into clear, executable construction instructions tailored to the context of vocational training.

The structure was subsequently fabricated and assembled by CEPV students under the supervision of Maurice Jaques and Enrique Illanez, who guided the translation of these geometric instructions into built form. The workshop became a space in which abstract geometric relationships were tested and materialized through hands-on construction, transforming digital information into a physical structure.