Capgemini Campus
Ernst & Young

The site, near Chantilly, has been developed over time by its succession of owners. Cleared by monks, then transformed into a pleasure garden in the 18th century, the huge park was never home to a château until the arrival of the Rothschild family. Eventually becoming a Jesuit library, the site has remained down the ages simultaneously a place of power, prestige and knowledge. In continuing this lineage, the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young university preserves its essence. The park has been returned to its original layout, and the château restored while retaining its original architecture. Thus, with nothing added nor removed, the eclecticism of the site’s composition was implicitly open to a contemporary architecture.

With its buildings in brick and stone and concentric copper discs, the campus describes a semicircle, centred on the château’s main axis. This form creates unity, and the materials create harmony. Campus and château echo each other in a subtle composition with a remarkably precise geometry.

Architecture and landscape come together to form a whole. The main layout shape borrows as much from the orangery as from the cloister. A semicircular space, enclosed by the façade of the château, it recreates a serene world, detached from external contingencies, a place of concentration and intellectual excitement.

Outside this space, accommodation and leisure activities belong more to the park. From the eclectic château to the resolutely contemporary campus, the quality and continuity of the architecture echo the company’s image of quality and continuity.

In 2008, the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Campus in Gouvieux received the EU Ecolabel, awarded to the most eco-friendly products and services within the EU.