Next-Generation Business Hub

Versailles reinvents the art of hosting ambition

For FM Gestion, we orchestrated 500m² turnkey in 3 months: 30 modular workstations where every growing team finds its bespoke setting.

500 m²
3 months
2025

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Concept

Next-generation business hub in Versailles

FM Gestion (FRM Partner group) operates a shared workplace in Versailles designed to host growing teams. The 2025 project delivered 500 sqm for around 30 workstations, with a hybrid coworking / business hub / startup approach.

Situation

FM Gestion, a subsidiary of the FRM Partner group specialising in financial services, operates a hybrid business hub in Versailles, blending premium coworking with a fintech incubator. Kytom delivered 500 sqm for 30 workstations in 2025, within 3 months aligned with the landlord’s leasing window.

The central constraint was not aesthetic but economic: any delay generated outright rental vacancy, and the floor plate had to accommodate either an established asset management team or a fintech start-up, and therefore reconfigure without reopening a worksite. The chosen ratio, 16.7 sqm per workstation, embraces spatial comfort over the usual office densification at 8-10 sqm.

Three months to deliver a hybrid coworking and business hub floor plate

The 3-month timeline was non-negotiable: aligned with the leasing date of the future residents, any slippage translated into outright rental vacancy. The budget framework required concentrating investment on high-exposure areas (reception, meeting rooms, lounge) rather than diluting it uniformly. The third tension, the most structuring: a floor plate leased to rotating residents cannot be fixed.

Every departure of a 6-person team and every arrival of a 12-person team cannot trigger a new masonry partitioning worksite, unless 4 to 6 weeks of rent are lost with each rotation. This operational constraint required reversibility to be considered from the outset as a design parameter, not as a later option.

Native reversibility as a structuring decision, not masonry partitioning

The central technical decision was to rule out masonry partitioning in favour of a perimeter of movable partitions across all resident offices. This choice, more costly per linear metre than standard plasterboard, governs two things: meeting the 3-month deadline (no drying time, no plumber-plasterer-painter sequence) and FRM Partner’s ability to recompose the floor plate within days rather than weeks.

A corollary decision: an oversized capillary VDI cabling, distributed workstation by workstation rather than pooled by zone, to absorb the continuous videoconferencing of the financial sector and each resident’s autonomy from its neighbour. The design and build format made it possible to lock in these two choices upstream, without any conflicting trade-off between design and execution.

The twelve work packages (space planning, electrical, low-voltage systems, partitions, painting, flooring, lighting, signage, modular furniture, finishes, circulation treatment, delivery) were paced in parallel rather than in sequence, with the slightest slippage contaminating the delivery date. The lounge and phone booths concentrated the finishing effort, while the circulation areas carried the visual signature at lower cost.

500 sqm delivered in 3 months, 30 workstations, a floor plate reconfigurable without a worksite

The floor plate was handed over within the contracted 3-month window, aligned with the leasing schedule. Thirty operational workstations, a ratio of 16.7 sqm per workstation. The twelve work packages were coordinated without any break in phasing.

The initial choice of native reversibility, rather than masonry partitioning, extends its effects beyond delivery: resident rotations are absorbed through redeployment of the movable partitions and reassignment of the VDI already in place, without demolition or interruption of operations on neighbouring floor plates.

For a commercial product whose profitability hinges on occupancy rate, this property turns each rotation into an operation of a few days rather than a 4-to-6-week worksite. On the CSR front, Kytom is currently structuring its reporting: the dedicated edition will follow on the upcoming operations of the FRM Partner group.

500

sq m transformed

months of work

workstations

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