Located in the Lyon neighborhood called the United States built by the architect Tony Garnier, this garden wishes to honor the architect with a composition which takes as its inspiration his configurations (his network of roads and delineation of blocks). The garden is therefore characterized by a series of parallel strips composed of plantings, paths, benches, games, watering areas, and clearings. Intimate spots are created, never completely enclosed, and always visible.

This space combines the porous nature of a square with the intimate appearance of a garden, combining as well an unencumbered vegetation of pine trees, rhododendrons, and laurels with the rigorous geometry of the constructed elements, such as the rows of concrete benches, drains, decomposed granite paths.

In bringing together types of public space usually kept distinct from one another, such as the roads, parks, and gardens of Lyon, this project served in contributing to the invention of an intermediate typology, which is neither square nor garden.

Other projects have been born out of the same principle, such as the Célestins garden-square in Lyon, and the small square Couronne in Nîmes.