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Unite d’ Habitation nursery // Le Corbusier Year of completion: 1952 Commonly known as Le Corbusier’s kindergarten, the innovative design at that time is to accommodate living spaces, as well as the public, communal places. The roof, where the kindergarten is located, was the object of observation and subsequent graphic elaboration. It is interesting to note how every child, though with a different sensibility and interest, has perceived and subsequently represented the building’s most significant elements: the large rectangular mass, the pattern of the facade, the liveliness of the balcony colours, the disposition of the service floor plan, the accentuated tapering of the basement pilotis (often schematised as triangles), the spiral of the security staircase, the free articulation of the roof, the reversed cones shape of the chimney and finally, the typical hills of Marseilles which the children see on the horizon as they play on the roof of the building. Realizing that the concept of the kindergarten was soon became the necessity of everyday life. It was then reflected in urban planning in socialist states, which took a lively interest in childcare and preschool education. Proposing a kindergarten in a new housing scheme is the best option as it has become a necessity even on a high-rise building. Figure 3.28 Le Corbusier’s kindergarten, Domus 565, December 1976 Ferrari, G. (2018) Le Corbusier’s kindergarten and other educational experiments in the 1970s. https:// www.domusweb.it/en/events/istanbul-designbiennial/2018/09/10/le-corbusiers-kindergartenand-other-educational-experiments-in-the-1970s. html (Accessed: 25 November 2019)
