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History
The cooperative stores, completed in 1865 by the drapery and grocery on the ground floor of the central building, were designed to meet all the needs of a good domestic economy including hygiene and food variety, without having to go through intermediaries, who were regarded as "parasites" between the producers and the consumers. The running of the stores became cooperative with the founding of the Association du Capital et du Travail. Buying and selling were handled by members of the société du Familistère. Abandoned in 1968, the stores were listed as Historical Monuments in 1991.
Aims and construction work
The store complex will become the Familistère's Visitor Centre, housing the reception area for tourists and miscellaneous facilities open to the public at large. These include:
- North wing (200 m): refreshment room
- West wing (150 m): reception-tickets-book shop.
- East wing (over 140 m): documentation, meeting hall, multimedia room (open to visitors and to pupils from the Godin school)
- South wing (over 280 m): permanent exhibition area providing an introduction to a tour of the site
The yard on the south will be the site of a building housing the museum collections in storerooms.
Financing and schedule
Estimated cost of work (excluding collection storerooms): 1,584,864 (exclusive of tax)
Schedule: opening of North wing in 2004
opening of the rest of the complex in May 2005.
Schedule details:
2001
Shell of North Wing
2002
Interior decoration of North wing (excluding furniture)
Faades and roofs of East and West wings
2003
Faades and roofs of East and West wings (continued)
Faades and roofs of South wing
Finishings and decoration of East, West and South wings
2004
Finishings and decoration of East, West and South wings
Exhibit design and scenic layout
Exterior and interior courtyard decorations
2005
Exhibit design and scenic layout (completion)
Financing: département de l'Aisne, City of Guise, Picardy region, State, Europe (FEDER).
Contracting authority: Ville de Guise, Syndicat Mixte du Familistère Godin since 2001
Project manager: Thierry Algrin, Chief Architect of Historical Monuments (restoration work on walls and roofs), Frdric Beauclair, architect (interior decoration)
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History
Jean-Baptiste-André Godin laid out the garden in several phases starting in 1856. It stretches over more than a hectare on the hillside of the Oise above the city, midway between the factory and the residential complex. The garden comprised a "productive" area - a kitchen garden used mainly for educational purposes and a grove - and a "recreational" area offering picturesque strolls punctuated by ponds and a "rustic building."
After 1968, the garden was abandoned and gradually became an neglected wasteland. In 1997 the Godin Company turned it over to the City of Guise in exchange for a token franc. In 2000, the recreational garden was transferred to the Syndicat Mixte du Familistère Godin.
Aims and construction work
Clearing work, begun in 2000, was followed by the layout of the lawns, beds, avenues and the planting (based on studies by landscape architect Jol Chatain).
Work on the architecture and the furniture was completed in 2004, including greenhouse restoration, pond replenishment, path and avenue surfacing, fencing, clearing the former railway line, bench installation.
Financing and schedule
Cost: 234,250 (exclusive of tax)
Schedule: July 2003 - April 2004. Inauguration May 1, 2004.
Financing: Syndicat Mixte du Familistère Godin, département de l'Aisne, Europe (FEDER)
Contracting authority: Syndicat Mixte du Familistère Godin
Project manager: Atelier Lab architect.
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Concept
The new garden will cover 9 hectares situated on a peninsula to the north of the Social Palace, on land occupied by a poplar grove until the late 1990s. The peninsula garden was the theme of a design competition held on site by the Familistère on March 21 and 22, 2002. The winners were Projet Base (landscape design) and Atelier Lab (architect). The following is a brief statement of the design concept:
"The relief of the earthwork engenders a progression from a dry garden (near the Social Palace) to a damp garden (toward the Oise river to the North). The dry garden overlooks the site. Open and airy, it can serve as a venue for shows; the gently sloping ground offering the public terraced seating, either facing the garden or facing the Palace. Strollers can picnic on the special "tablecloth-tables" or stop for a bite to eat or a drink at the quiet pleasant buvette housed in a rustic hut. The damp garden along the Oise withstands regular flooding. The rugged relief here lends itself to all sorts of surprises (footbridge, glade, pond, and other miscellaneous installations). A spawning is planned for pike reproduction. The softened profile of the banks enhances river flow and plant growth. The changes were specifically designed to avoid an hydraulic impact on the rise in water level of the Oise. An artificially ripraped pool, with continually flowing clear water, forms a hidden attraction in the garden - a place for stretching out, cooling off, making noise, and so on, which crystallizes the meaning of exterior comfort. Near the pool, a damp glade is accessible when the waters in the river are not flooding.
Financing and schedule
Cost of phase 1: 599,565 (exclusive of tax)
Schedule: Start of work spring 2004
Completion fall 2004
Financing: Syndicat Mixte du Familistère Godin, département de l'Aisne, City of Guise, Europe (FEDER), Picardy Region, S.I.A.B.O.A.
Contracting authority: Syndicat mixte du Familistère Godin
Project managers: Projet Base (landscaping), Atelier Lab (architect), Pierre-Yves Fafournoux, (hydraulic engineer).
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History
Erected in 1870 on the right bank of the Oise, on the slope between the factory and the river, this industrial-type construction comprises a lavoir, or communal washhouse, surmounted by a big clothes drying area to the west (on the Social Palace side), a pool to the East (on the factory side) and showers and baths to the north (on the garden side). These facilities have a common denominator: the need for an abundant supply of water, which was one of "equivalents of wealth" available at the Social Palace. They were housed in the same complex so that hot water from the foundry could be tapped and drained into the Oise river.
The pool was used by moulders, employees and directors alike as a small swimming area for physical exercise. Specially designed to facilitate swimming lessons, it was equipped with a moveable open-work deck that made learning how to swim at different ages possible in complete safety. Abandoned after 1968, the washhouse - pool complex was made a Listed Historical Monument in 1991.
Aims and construction work
The preliminary study of restoration work on the complex was completed in 2002. The technical and architectural project was established in 2003.
Renovation work began in 2004 and will mainly include:
- Washhouse: public hall during the off-season and guinguette, or riverside caf, with outdoor tables along the Oise in summer
- Clothes drying area: in this space, reached through the washhouse, an exhibit on the theme of hygiene and "hygienism." The area adjoins the interior patio overlooking the pool.
- Pool: scenic design
- Surroundings: patio in front of the washhouse; reconstruction of the jeu d'arc, a kind of bow shooting game, along the Oise.
Financing and schedule
Estimated cost: 1,843,896 (exclusive of tax)
Schedule:
2003
Architectural and technical restoration project for the Historical Monument
2004
Historical Monument construction work, phase 1, roofs and walls
Scenic layout: schematic design and detailed design
2005
Historical Monument construction work, phase 2
Scenic design - exhibit layout
Development of the right bank
Contracting authority: Syndicat mixte du Familistère Godin
Project manager: Thierry Algrin, chief architect of Historical Monuments
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