Associations

The BDE is an association that enables students to get involved in the school's community life. The aim is to organize events on a larger or smaller scale (parties, afterworks, meals, etc.) to forge links between members and all classes. 
These events help strengthen exchanges and encounters between students. The organization of the sweatshirt sale is also a major event at the school every year. 

The BDE also helps link businesses and the student community through partnerships (Géant des Beaux Arts, Carte Mojjo, Lydia, etc.). These partnerships give students access to advantageous offers, discounts and more. 

The BDE is mixed, with members from different classes and a real sense of cohesion. The association's board is renewed every year, so we never run out of innovative ideas. The BDE is active on its social networks where it communicates about all its events.

Email : @email
Facebook : BDE ENSAL
Instagram : @bde_ensal 
 

The Bureau des sports is the school's sports association. In collaboration with ENTPE's BDS, it offers the opportunity to practice a wide variety of sports such as soccer, tennis, basketball, handball, boxing, swimming, etc. The association also provides access to a swimming pool and a gym. By choosing to practice a sporting activity, it's the opportunity to take part in university matches on Thursday afternoons and develop team spirit.

Throughout the year, the association takes charge of organizing various sporting events that help build bonds. January sees the WES ski weekend. In February, a derby against the Grenoble School of Architecture is organized. In spring, the BDS takes part in the Archipiades. Every year, this legendary multi-sport tournament brings together nearly 3,000 students from all the architecture schools in France.

In addition to these events, students can also take part in ENTPE-related events such as the derby against Centrale Lyon, the Trams, the Toss, the Massilia. This is an opportunity to meet many new people beyond the campus.

A real team spirit is established among association members from all graduating classes, so that we can offer the highest quality events and the most advantageous partnerships to ensaliens and ensaliennes.

Email: @email
Facebook: BDS ENSA Lyon
Instagram : bds_ensal
 

L'Esquisse aims to help students with their work, participate in school life and disseminate knowledge. Set up in the extension, it sells materials to the student community at cost price (which they will need for their models or art classes, for example). It also lends out small tools (hot wire, screwdrivers, pliers, etc.) and organizes themed workshops throughout the academic year. The association is run by student volunteers, who ensure the smooth running of the premises on a daily basis.

Email: @email
Facebook: L'esquisse
Instagram: esquisse_ensal
Opening hours: 12:30pm-1:45pm
 

NOVA is the association for innovation in architecture. Created at the same time as AckLab', ENSAL's architectural innovation workshop, the NOVA association aims to run the fablab around four axes: learn, make, conserve, disseminate. Training in tools, new or traditional practices and software; handling tools, sharing know-how, raising awareness of new technologies in conjunction with the MAP-Aria laboratory are all objectives targeted by this group of enthusiasts.

Email: @email 
Facebook: NOVA ENSAL
Instagram: NOVA ENSAL 
Discord
 

AAA is an association with a wide range of projects and student initiatives, focusing on humanitarian, educational, cultural and ecological themes.

Three poles structure the association: Humanitarian, educational, ecological.

• Humanitarian: Organization of potential humanitarian trips, links with associations in Africa and Asia to set up projects with them. A collection of school supplies from last year will enable us to redistribute them this year, city-wide, to people in need. Pedagogy: Discovery and introduction to architecture for children from day-care centers and schools, in a fun way. Creation of models and an architectural orienteering race in Lyon.
• Ecology: Set up actions on campus in partnership with GreenTPE (ENTPE's ecological association) to raise awareness of ecology and improve campus lifestyles. Organization of cleanwalk, workshop and creation of a vermicompost.

Email : @email
Facebook : AAA ENSAL
Instagram : asso_aaa
 

Le Diaph'Archi offers students the opportunity to discover and learn about digital photography techniques through a variety of media and events: exhibitions, workshops, outings, etc. It enables all members to share and learn about the practice. The association also covers a large proportion of school and Inter-assos events, thanks to the photographers who report on them (Evenings, WEI, RDD, Gala, etc.).

Email: @email
Facebook: le Diaph'Archi
Instagram: le_diaph_archi
 

RAB! aims to disseminate current student art in all its forms: between publication of a monthly magazine, student art exhibitions and a book club. RAB! challenges itself to promote the talent around it. The credo of RAB! : art is everywhere, accessible to all, sometimes serious, always aberrant.

Email: @email 
Instagram: @revuedesaberrations
 

Le Gala is the association that organizes an annual event in honor of ENSAL students. For one evening, current and former students get together. Students take over the Pavillon de la Soie, specially decorated for the occasion. It's a time to talk with the different graduating classes and enjoy an evening rich in emotion. Scenography, communication, partnership research and musical programming, the Gala association organizes this emblematic evening throughout the year.

Email: @email 
Facebook: Jean Gala
Instagram: @gala.ensal
 

Archisound is a cultural association. Through the organization of numerous projects and events, it promotes the link between art and architecture. Founded in 2008, Archisound aims to provide a quality venue for student musicians to play in good conditions.

It makes instruments available and self-service for all. It brings all musicians together once every two weeks during Jams / open stages (modeled on Lyon jazz clubs and barges).

Artistic projects don't stop at music. Set design, photography, graphic design and dance are an integral part of Archisound's dynamics.

Email: @email 
Instagram: @archisoundfestival
 

Lacharette is an association that brings together the region's four schools of architecture (Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne and Lyon) with the aim of organizing a workshop in March of the current year. The tasks of the organization are distributed among the four latter. 

In 2025, the workshop takes place at ENSAL. On the program: varied teams, new encounters, frenzied work around a material unveiled on the day of arrival at the workshop venue, and a closing party.

Email: @email 
Facebook: LaCharetteENSA
 

Clap is the school's cinema association. It works to promote regional cinema and festivals on campus. On the program: lecture hall screenings, cinema outings, film reviews and partnerships with Lyon cinemas. The association is also part of the Jury des Grandes Écoles at the [Un Poing c'est Court] festival in Vaulx-en-Velin.

At ENSAL, Le Clap enables students to express their creativity and filmmaking talents through a short film competition. It's an opportunity for all ENSAL students to try their hand at filmmaking, with a new theme every year. The competition ends with a screening of the films, followed by the Clap awards ceremony during the 7^e art à l'école evening.

Email: @email 
YouTube: clap_archi
Instagram: clap_archi
 

Founded in 2017, each year the eloquence brings together a team of student volunteers responsible for organizing and preparing the entire competition. Every year, the eloquence competition creates a lively buzz within the school. Everyone comes together to watch oratorical jousts where humor, emotion and reflection are intertwined.

The eloquence contest

The association's contest has become an unmissable event for those passionate about words and ideas. Now known as the Cercle des Orateurs de l'ENSAL, the association is a member of the Fédération Française de Débat et d'Éloquence. It is driven by a desire to bring students together in a spirit of creativity and exchange, while offering an experience that is both enriching and entertaining first on a regional, then on a national scale.

Participants, from diverse backgrounds, take to the stage to defend their ideas, surprise the audience and convince. The jury is made up of teachers, professionals and former winners. The themes proposed vary each year: they tackle light-hearted, philosophical or even provocative subjects.

More than a simple challenge, this event embodies the spirit of a school where architecture is not limited to buildings, but extends to the construction of ideas and dialogue. The competition represents a unique moment when a passion for the art of speaking unites an entire community. A tradition that, year after year, continues to inspire and thrill ENSAL.

Email: @email
Instagram: c.o.e.a.l
 

The Junior Conseil Travaux Projets Études - JCTPE, a non-profit association under the French law of 1901, has been bringing together students from ENSAL and ENTPE for almost 40 years. The office is managed by students who have completed a training course.
Its vocation is to create links between companies in the region and the student community around concrete assignments such as technical studies (life cycle analysis, cartography, sociological survey, territorial strategy expertise, etc.) and targeted architectural and urban planning assignments (production of models, graphic design, building permit drawings, 3D modeling, project assistance). A real springboard, the JCTPE offers campus students the opportunity to develop specific skills, field expertise and a professional network. 

The office ensures the smooth running of the junior enterprise: securing assignments, managing files, acting as a link between students and companies, taking charge of the administrative side, following up on assignments, paying students, etc.
1-year membership: €10

Email: @email
Facebook: JCTPE
LinkedIn
 

UNÉAP is an association created by and for students at France's 22 schools of architecture and landscape, working to guarantee representation and cohesion, training for associations and elected representatives, and improving teaching and student life. 
To achieve this, UNÉAP aims to be as close as possible to the student community, their representatives and associations. They also work with those involved in their teaching and profession to offer students services, events and projects. The UNÉAP team is made up of members from numerous schools.

Email: @email
Facebook: UNEAP - Union nationale des étudiants en Architecture et Paysage
Instagram: @uneap

La Société des diplômés de l'ENSAL is the alumni association of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon. Created on March 8, 2016, its purpose is to extend contact between former architectural students after graduation. Through its publications, it relays information from professional organizations in the architectural professions, and facilitates career guidance by offering relevant news from the region, training opportunities and developments in the architectural professions. Alumni can also get together at events and functions organized by the association.

Email: @email
Facebook: SDDarchilyon