![]() The Structure was applied to ‘Bosco Albergati’ Park (Modena, Italy) which, 30 years after planting, represents an example of spatial organisation imitating nature. The pattern may evolve in space and time, combining biomimicry and geometry, and adapts to different contexts through metamorphosis and deformations. The sides of the polygon constitute a network of nodes (vertices) and connecting rods. The Structure consists of a primary pattern of 23 irregular polygons defining the areas belonging to each stakeholder in the spatial organisation: humans, plants, animals. It is a model of spatial organization seeking a balance between the spaces of people and those of trees, reconciling and promote all living forms. The Non-centred Reticular Structure is a modular pattern developed by Cesare Leonardi (Modena, Italy, 1935) from 1983, the result of research into spatial and urban planning focusing on trees. These two unassuming yet inordinately significant dwellings seek to counter the overwhelming modern condition of ‘technicity’ by descending to the chthonic claims of the natural conditions, in alliance with Heidegger’s post-war essays co-locating building and dwelling, and Le Corbusier’s 'Le poème de l’angle droit' that indexes a descent down to the question of dwelling, essentially. It draws on archival drawings and photographs, published and private statements, writings by others, and direct personal observations made in situ. This article presents a close tandem reading of the architecture and inhabitation of Heidegger’s staunchly traditional Hütte on the upper slope of a deep-green Schwarzwald valley and Le Corbusier’s modern-ascetic Cabanon overlooking the beckoning azure waters of the Côte d’Azur. The philosopher Martin Heidegger and the architect Le Corbusier - two towering 20th-century public figures - each built for themselves small, sturdily crafted timber cabins well away from the cities of their busy everyday lives, to which they would repair annually to work in solitude and draw sustenance from their landscapes and locally archaic cultures.
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