Le Corbusier, un architecte emerseur avant l’heure? De l’incorporation de sa conscience corporelle dans son projet du sport au pied des maisons comme dessein social

Abstract

Emersive leisure does not cover physical exercise in geographical areas or modern sports institutions. Faced with the urbanization and pollution of cities, the architect Le Corbusier founded his playful revolution on the emergence of emersive leisure and sports practice carried out close to buildings. Emersive leisure must offer the possibility of a playful attitude to an urban environment which, in 1930, did not favor such an attitude. With sports played close to buildings, leisure is directly available from the ground floor and on the roof terrace where hydrotherapy, heliotherapy, and naturism would be guaranteed and free. Using Le Corbusier’s archives and bodily experiences, the author found how the architect used the ecology of his own body in order to build and live a new relationship with space.