Generative-Economy Design Realized: How Dassault Systèmes and Patrick Jouin Created a Waste-Minimizing Chair

Generative-Economy Design Realized: How Dassault Systèmes and Patrick Jouin Created a Waste-Minimizing Chair

(IN BRIEF) Ta.Tamu is a groundbreaking chair co-created by Dassault Systèmes and Patrick Jouin on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Leveraging AI-powered virtual twins, life-cycle assessment, and biomimicry, the design team optimized the chair’s folded form for 3D printing without assembly. The lightweight, lattice-structured seat weighs 3.9 kg, supports 100 kg, and uses 75 percent less material than a solid model. Real-time simulation via topological optimization refined every detail, balancing function and aesthetics. Developed on AWS with Valtech, Ta.Tamu demonstrates how early integration of modeling and simulation drives material efficiency and sustainable product innovation.

(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 25-Jun-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Dassault Systèmes and French designer Patrick Jouin have unveiled Ta.Tamu, an innovative, fully functional chair 3D-printed in its folded state using the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform. As a showcase of generative-economy design, Ta.Tamu marries AI-driven virtual twins with material-frugal methods—drawing on biomimicry and data-led optimization to create a single-piece structure that requires no assembly.

Over four years of collaboration, Jouin’s instinctive design ethos fused with Dassault Systèmes’ modeling and simulation capabilities. Early integration of life-cycle assessment and topological optimization refined every joint, hinge, and load-bearing zone. Inspired by the human skeleton’s density distribution and joint articulation, Ta.Tamu weighs just 3.9 kg yet supports 100 kg, printing flat and unfolding into its final form without additional parts.

Built on AWS by Valtech engineers, the chair’s lattice geometry evolved in real time on the virtual twin, ensuring each modification balanced aesthetics with structural integrity. The result is a design that uses 75 percent less material than a solid equivalent and illustrates how collaborative, simulation-driven workflows can minimize waste at conception.

“Nature uses only what it needs,” explains Patrick Jouin. “By embedding Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative technologies from the outset, we’ve generated more efficient designs that produce less waste.” Anne Asensio, Vice President of Design Experience at Dassault Systèmes, adds, “Ta.Tamu is a rallying cry for industry to embrace a generative economy. Integrating modeling and simulation early on delivers sustainable innovation with real-world impact.”

About Patrick Jouin

Patrick Jouin is a French designer and a graduate of ENSCI–Les Ateliers. In 1999, he founded his industrial design studio, Patrick Jouin iD. A pioneer in the use of 3D printing for furniture design, he created the Solid collection in 2004, the first series of furniture pieces produced directly from digital files, without molds or assembly. This milestone marked the beginning of an in-depth exploration of new ways to design and manufacture, rethinking forms, gestures, and structures in light of emerging technologies.

Through objects such as One Shot, Bloom, and the monolithic bench at the Palais de Tokyo, Patrick Jouin has revealed the ability of these tools to generate intuitive, lightweight, and sometimes otherwise unattainable forms. Since 2019, he has been engaged in an experimental collaboration with Anne Asensio and the teams at Dassault Systèmes, exploring generative design, folding, and deployability.

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress.  Since 1981, the company has pioneered virtual worlds to improve real life for consumers, patients and citizens.  With Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, 370,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, can collaborate, imagine and create sustainable innovations that drive meaningful impact.  For more information, visit: www.3ds.com

Media Contact:

Dassault Systèmes:
Natasha LEVANTI
natasha.levanti@3ds.com
+1 (508) 449 8097

Patrick Jouin iD Studio:
communication@patrickjouin.com
ylecomte@patrickjouin.com
+33 1 55 28 89 15

SOURCE: Dassault Systèmes