Les Briques host team meetings, study days, project kick-offs and residential seminars for 8 to 30 people, and private gatherings for up to 30. The venue is a renovated farmhouse in Lion-sur-Mer, on the Normandy coast 15 km north of Caen and about two hours from Paris. It combines a coworking space, a tearoom, a coliving floor and a woodworking shop, and any of its four spaces can be booked for a group.
Seminars and company events
For a day seminar, the team suggests the space that fits the format: the coworking for up to 20 around large wooden tables, the tearoom for up to 30, the coliving lounge upstairs for up to 20 under the roof beams, or the walled garden for about 30 in fine weather. Spaces can be combined. Fiber Wi-Fi, a projector and screen, extra monitors, a whiteboard, and unlimited coffee and tea are included.
For a residential seminar of two days or more, the team works downstairs and sleeps upstairs. A typical day starts with breakfast at 9 am, runs a working morning, a home-made lunch, an afternoon in the woodshop or on the beach, and an afterwork that ends at 7 pm.
Jean, a cabinetmaker and co-founder, runs a woodworking team-building session in the on-site workshop: two to two and a half hours for groups of 8 to 14, where each participant leaves with the object they built. Yoga classes can be added.
Weddings and receptions
The venue is booked for family reunions, birthdays, wedding drinks receptions (vin d'honneur) and weekends with friends, for up to 30 guests during the day.
Rooms and capacities
- Tearoom: up to 30, with a professional kitchen next door.
- Coworking: up to 20.
- Coliving lounge: up to 20.
- Garden: about 30, with terrace and Wi-Fi.
- Meeting room: up to 4, with a 43-inch screen.
All spaces except the coliving floor are wheelchair accessible.
Accommodation
The coliving floor sleeps up to 14 people in eleven wooden cabins inspired by boat berths: eight singles and three doubles, each closed by a wooden door. Hotel-grade French bedding, linen and cleaning are included, with a shared bathroom of three showers. Groups can book it from October to April; the rest of the year it is used by coliving residents. For larger groups, the team points to hotels in Lion-sur-Mer within walking distance.
Catering
From Tuesday to Friday, Katia cooks for groups: breakfast for up to 30, a home-made lunch for up to 20 company guests, and an afterwork. The food is local and seasonal. On Mondays and weekends there is no catering; groups can use the coliving kitchen or bring the caterer of their choice, who has access to the tearoom's professional kitchen.
History and setting
The building is a former farmhouse with stone walls and exposed beams. Its renovation took two years and created 240 square meters of new space upstairs, fitted out with furniture made in the venue's own workshop. Lion-sur-Mer beach is a five-minute walk away, with a sailing school in summer and a seafront promenade.
Getting there
The address is 8 rue Morel de Than, 14780 Lion-sur-Mer. Trains from Paris Saint-Lazare reach Caen in about two hours; bus line 12 then runs from Caen station to the Bas Lion stop, 500 m away, in 50 to 70 minutes. A large free car park is a minute's walk away. By bike, a greenway runs from Caen along the canal to Ouistreham and the coast.
