TONY GARNIER - CITY INDUSTRIAL

About Tony Garnier

 He was an French architect and city planner.

 He was most active in his hometown of Lyon.
 He studied on sociological and architectural
problems.
 His basic idea included the separation of
spaces by function through zoning into several
categories.
 Tony Garnier first produced plan for the ideal
industrial town in 1904.
 In industrial city of Tony Garnier, he determine
general standards of city and with these
standards.
 He developed some designs that supplied
people’s materially and morally needs.
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 The city was divided city into Four main Functions
1. Work - Functionalism
2. Housing -Space
3. Health - High Sun’s hire exposure
4. Leisure - Greenery
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 Garnier ‘s proposal was an industrial city
for approx 35.000 inhabitants situated on
a area in southeast France on a plateau
with high land and a lake to the north, a
valley and river to the south.
 He envisaged a town of segregated uses
with a residential area, a train station
quarter and an industrial zone.
 Concept of zoning was strongly similar
with Ebenezer Howard Garden Cities of To-
morrow because he divided the city into
three parts as well like Garnier.
 Garnier tries to take into account all
aspects of the city including governmental,
residential, manufacturing and agricultural
practices.
 The various function of the city were clearly
related, but separated from each from by Ebenezer Howard’s Garden
location and patterns.
Cities concept
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 The public area at the heart of the city was grouped into three sections:
1. Administrative services and assembly halls
2. Museum collections
3. Sport facilities.
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 Region of station is centre of the city and it includes all public
trade facilities together.
 A railway passes between the factory and the city, which is on a
plateau, and further up are the medical facilities.
 INDUSTRIAL CITY - The residential area
 The residential area is made up of rectangular blocks running east-west which gives
the city its characteristic elongated form.
 This is the location of the houses and the houses was situated into the large green
areas to benefit from sun and fresh air.
 The residential districts are the first attempt towards passive solar architecture.
 Garnier had energy efficiently in mind as the city was to be powered by a hydroelectric
station with a dam which was located in the mountains along with the hospital.
 INDUSTRIAL CITY - The Hospital area

 Another significant region was the

hospital area.
 Medical practice of that time was
almost totally without the tools and
treatments not in common use, but it
had become apparent that sunshine
and pure air were helpful in
overcoming many diseases.
 There was a movement toward
breaking down big hospitals into
units called pavilions, thus giving
patients close relationship to these
amenities and making them feel
more relaxed than if they were in a
huge crowded environment.
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 Tony Garnier was the one of the

pioneers of the modern architecture
in terms of material.
 The materials used are concrete for
the foundations and walls, and
reinforced concrete for floors and
ceilings.
 All important buildings are
constructed of reinforced concrete.
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 Another innovation that reflect on the city plan is equality between people.
 When asked why his city contained no law courts, police stations, jail or church, he is
said to have replied that the new society governed by socialist law.
 All of them brings about socialism theory.
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 Tony’ s industrial city is one of the
most comprehensive idea plans of
all time.
 Garnier’ s industrial city was never
built, but he contributed to the
further planners such as Le
Corbusier.
 Corbusier was the first well- known
architect to discuss about Garnier’ s
works.

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