Chateauform Learning Lab La Défense, in Puteaux, is a meeting and training house for groups of 4 to 80 participants. It occupies 3,200 square meters over six floors at the foot of the Grande Arche and offers 37 meeting rooms, all with daylight and all modular. The house is dedicated to learning, so the layout favors workshops, training days and coaching sessions over receptions.
Seminars and company events
Chateauform describes this address as fully devoted to training and to hosting learning programs. The rooms suit design thinking workshops, coaching and personal development sessions, soft and hard skills courses, tool roll-outs and IT training in fully equipped rooms. The largest rooms take 80 people in plenary.
Five informal rooms with staged themes give facilitators a looser setting than a standard meeting room. Teams can use them for discussion and creative work, away from rigid partitioned layouts. The house also provides audiovisual and computer equipment, ergonomic furniture and teaching tools: writing surfaces, a creative kit and a facilitator kit. Break lounges let participants meet over snacks between sessions.
A host team handles the logistics and the administration of the day, so the organizer can concentrate on the program. Chateauform states that the quote it issues is the final invoice. Optional activities include icebreakers, a Lego City session and yoga or meditation, and the house publishes a catalogue of activities.
Rooms and capacities
The house lists three kinds of space.
The 32 modular rooms go up to 103 square meters. Maximum capacity by layout: classroom 60, islands 30, U-shape 30, theatre 80.
The 5 informal rooms go up to 47 square meters. Maximum capacity by layout: classroom 24, islands 16, U-shape 16, theatre 34.
The cocktail space measures up to 35 square meters and seats 20 in theatre layout. The capacity summary on the official page gives up to 80 participants for a cocktail setting.
The official page does not name individual rooms. It does not mention bedrooms either, so plan accommodation separately for participants who travel.
Catering
Catering is provided by Nomad, the house caterer, whose chefs cook seasonal produce. Options run from a light snack to full catering, and the lunch, the afterwork or the coffee breaks can be defined with the house team. The organizer chooses the formula for each day.
Getting there
The address is 40 Passage de l'Arche, 92800 Puteaux, at the foot of the Grande Arche de la Défense. The official page names La Défense Grande Arche metro station as the access point, which makes the house easy to reach for teams arriving from central Paris and from the western suburbs. A downloadable access plan is available from the house page.
