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Extending, stretching, adding depth, but also making it easy to read and intelligible, and finally, giving a large space to nature. These are the fundamental acts that we imagined to deploy a vertical campus and to inscribe in the architecture of ESCP the values of "excellence, singularity, creativity and plurality" demanded by the project owner. To do this, we wanted the courtyard, a gathering place, to be visually enlarged to radiate onto the entire campus. Through light effects playing on transparency, it offers a luminous and vegetal universe, and is the expression of the school's community life together.

The southern part of the courtyard keeps the institutional image of the building and its Haussmannian character. The brasserie, the showroom, the boutique, and the reception area are all open, bright, elegant, and accessible to all, a blend of tradition and modernity.

A light canopy with an evanescent design announces the passage to the Living Space, the school's place of effervescence, and reveals ESCP’s new identity composed of serendipity, modularity, and fluidity. The northern part of the courtyard is hollowed out and its façade becomes transparent, with on one side the large multi-purpose hall that covers the former courtyard of building 3 to accommodate the “Cowork&Food^®”. On the other side the Study Space, a place of serenity, organized around the beautiful triangular volume of the former courtyard of building 4, bathed in daylight.

We wanted the galleries, corridors, and elevator landings to become real meeting places, that are all linked to each other and can easily be walked both horizontally and vertically, like the landscaped expanse of a campus. Each major programme entity is associated with a large-scale outdoor space in the form of planted terraces and balconies, that form a plant constellation that gravitates around the historic courtyard.

This profound transformation is made possible by the redesign of the distributive column of Building 2, which allows the combination of different floor levels, and by the creation of a connection between Buildings 2 and 4. This new distributive structure will therefore offer greater proximity and flexibility in the daily use of the Learning Space and the Work Space.

Each roof becomes the support of a hanging garden The high floors of building 2 (5th and 6th floor) will host the school's administration and will support the emblematic Feel Well Space. The large garden terrace on the eighth floor will be the highlight of the campus where the magical theatre of the enchanting Parisian skyline is revealed.